Feminine

cortiça

Meaning

(feminine, uncountable, usually) cork (bark of the cork oak)
(feminine, uncountable, usually) cork (tissue between the bark and cambium of woody plants)

outer layer

camada exterior distinta de um

tábua de cortiça

φελλός

siure

Korkplatte

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koʁˈt͡ʃi.sɐ/

Inherited from Latin

corticea

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese cortiça, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker- (“cut”). Doublet of cortíceo.

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