cortina

1. 1.

   a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils

   Broaderpartial veil

Other forms of cortina

plural

cortinae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cortina

What does cortina mean?

cortina means "a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils".

How many syllables are in cortina?

cortina has 3 syllables: cor-ti-na. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /kɚˈtinə/.

Is cortina a common word?

cortina is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.