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Cortes
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cortes cortés cortès cortês
English
Etymology 1
From en es Cortés.
Proper noun
es *
en Spanish Cortez
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en proper noun form
en Corte
See also
en Cort Corte Cortez
Anagrams
en ceorst Coster Ectors torces c-store Certos scrote escort corset sector rectos coster scoter Tresco recost
Cebuano
Alternative forms
ceb Cortez surname
Etymology
From ceb es Cortés, descriptive surname from es cortés polite. Compare ceb Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with es -ez (patronymic suffix).
For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist:
Named after es Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain
Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
From es cortésimo
Pronunciation
ceb Cor tes
Cortés
Proper noun
Cortés
ceb Spanish: en Cortes, es Cortés
ceb municipality p/Bohol c/Philippines Cortes
Quotations
ceb
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es ine-pro *ǵʰer- enclose
A proper noun usage of es cortes courts, chambers from es la-vul cōrtēs, plural of la cōrs cōrs, cōrtis, a short form via syncope of es la cohors cohortem court; enclosure from la co- hortus garden, country house, villa 1 from es ine-pro *ǵʰortós enclosure from ine-pro *ǵʰer- to enclose.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f-p
any of several legislative assemblies of Spain and Portugal; parliamentary chambers which exercise the power to craft legislation and control the actions of government as elected representatives of the public or, historically, in an advisory role to a reigning monarch
Derived terms
es Cortes Generales
Further reading
corte
Tagalog
Etymology
tl es Cortés, descriptive surname from es cortés polite. Compare tl Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with es -ez (patronymic suffix).
For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist:
Named after es Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain
Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
From es cortésimo.
Pronunciation
Cortés
Proper noun
Cortés +
tl municipality p/Bohol c/Philippines
tl Spanish
Related terms
tl Cortez