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curte
yard (courtyard) /ˈkur.te/
noun#1144 most common
Also: court (royal or judicial), courtship (in the phrase 'a face curte')
Example sentences
Pisica stă în curte.
The cat is in the yard.
Curtea casei noastre este verde.
Our house's yard is green.
Copiii aleargă prin curtea școlii în pauză.
The children run through the schoolyard during break.
Vecinii noștri au curățat curtea împreună.
Our neighbors cleaned the yard together.
De ceva vreme, el îi face curte colegei sale.
For a while now, he has been courting his colleague.
Curtea regală a găzduit un bal somptuos, la care au participat curteni din întreaga Europă.
The royal court hosted a sumptuous ball, attended by courtiers from across Europe.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | curte | curți |
| Genitive | curții | curților |
| Accusative | curte | curți |
| Vocative | curte | curți |
Word family
curteancourtier
curtezanăcourtesan
curtenitorcourteous
a face curteto court, to woo
curtoaziecourtesy
Etymology
Curte comes from Latin curtis, a later form of cohors (enclosure, yard, retinue). Cohors itself was built from co- and hortus, meaning garden. Over time the word spread across Romance languages, keeping the core sense of an enclosed space attached to a house, and later extending to the retinue and residence of a ruler.
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