cortado

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/

Noun

cortado (plural cortados)

1. A cup of espresso served with warm milk.
   • 2009, Chris Haslam, Twelve-Step Fandango, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 93:

     We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of [Yvan].

   • 2021, Florencia Mallon, Beyond the Ties of Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     " […] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk."

Translations

espresso with milk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可塔朵 (kětǎduǒ)

• Finnish: cortado
• Italian: caffè macchiato m
• Portuguese: cortado (pt) m

Anagrams

• cat door

Galician

Participle

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. past participle of cortar

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of cortar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [kohˈta.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [kohˈta.du]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈta.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈta.du/ [koχˈta.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈta.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈta.du/ [kuɾˈta.ðu]

• Hyphenation: cor‧ta‧do

Adjective

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. cut
2. chopped

Participle

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. past participle of cortar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koɾˈtado/ [koɾˈt̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: cor‧ta‧do

Adjective

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. (said of a writing style) choppy, disconnected
2. chopped
3. adjusted, proportioned
4. thickened, coagulated
5. shy
6. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess

   Synonym: proporcionado

Noun

cortado m (plural cortados)

1. a coffee or espresso with a small amount of warm milk added

   Synonyms: cortadito, (Venezuela) marrón

Derived terms

• cortadito (diminutive)

 

Participle

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. past participle of cortar

Further reading

• “cortado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• cortado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es