cortiza

• cortiça (reintegrationist)

First attested in 1390. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”).

• Hyphenation: cor‧ti‧za

cortiza f (uncountable)

1. bark; husk
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:

     ẽna almẽdra son tres cousas: a cortiça da çima et a casca et a vianda de dentro

     there are three things in an almond: the external husk, the peel, and the viand inside

   Synonym: casca

2. cork (bark of the cork oak)
3. item made of cork
   1. beehive

      Synonym: covo

• corticeira
• corticeiro
• Cortizas

• cortizo

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• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cortiç”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cortiza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cortiza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cortiza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “cortiza”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025