cotta
English
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
Noun
cotta (plural cottas)
- A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:
- ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
- A kind of coarse woolen blanket.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔt.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔtta
- Hyphenation: còt‧ta
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French cotte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Derived terms
- cotta d'arme (“surcoat”)
- cotta di maglia (“chain mail”)
Noun
cotta f (plural cotte)
Latin
Alternative forms
- cota, cottus
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/, [ˈkɔt̪ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/, [ˈkɔt̪ːä]
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cotta | cottae |
| Genitive | cottae | cottārum |
| Dative | cottae | cottīs |
| Accusative | cottam | cottās |
| Ablative | cottā | cottīs |
| Vocative | cotta | cottae |
Descendants
References
- Blaise, Albert (1975) “cota”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 259
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cottus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 278
- cotta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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