cortar

Meaning

  1. to cut
  2. to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip
  3. to chop, chop up, chop off
  4. to slice, to slit
  5. to mow
  6. to slash, to hack
  7. to carve, to engrave
  8. to hang up, to terminate a telephone call
  9. (Chile, informal) to stop an action
  10. (Chile) to shut off
  11. to finish a relationship
  12. (reflexive) to haircut
  13. to cut, to cut off, to slit (oneself or a part of the body)

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
cor‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koɾˈtaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin curtāre (“shorten”). Compare English curtail.

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