Spanish–English dictionary

cortesano

A person in attendance at a royal court.

cortesía

(uncountable) Polite behavior.

cortésmente

In a courteous manner; with obliging civility or condescension; politely.

corteza

(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

corteza de roble

The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.

corteza tánica

The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.

cortical

(anatomy) Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.

cortina

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

cortina de fuego

(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.

cortinas

Heavy cloth hung over a window.

cortisona

(steroid hormone, pharmaceutical drug) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C21H28O5.

corto

Of short duration; happening quickly. [from 15th c.]

corto de vista

Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.

cortón

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

cortoplacista

(figurative) Shortsighted; improvident.

cortopunzante

(obsolete, of a weapon, etc.) Sharp-pointed; keen.

corva

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

corvedura

(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

corvejón

The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

corvejos

(countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

corvina

An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

cosa

(slang) Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term.

cosa extraña

An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. [from 17th c.]

cosas

(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

coscacho

(slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.

coscas

The act of tickling.

coscoja

An oak, Quercus coccifera, native to the western Mediterranean region and growing 1-6 meters tall.

coscorrón

(slang) An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.

cosecha

The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

cosechador

(dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

cosechadora

A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.

cosechar

To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.

cosedor

One who sews.

cosedora

One who sews.

coseno

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos

cosicosa

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

cosificar

(transitive) To treat (someone) as a mere (often sexual) object, denying their dignity and tending toward dehumanizing them.

cositero

Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.

Cosme

A en given name of mostly historical use.

cosmética

The study of such products.

cosmético

External or superficial; pertaining only to the surface or appearance of something.

cosméticos

The study of such products.

cósmico

Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.

cosmo-

universe, world

cosmogonía

The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.

cosmogónico

Of or pertaining to cosmogony.

cosmografía

The creation of maps of the universe.

cosmológico

Of or pertaining to cosmology, or to the overall structure of the universe.

cosmólogo

A person who studies cosmology.

cosmonauta

An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.

cosmonave

(astronautics) A manned vehicle that flies through space.

cosmopolita

One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person.

cosmos

(countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

cosmovisión

A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.

coso

(slang) Something, generally a device, for which one does not know the proper term.

cosplay

(uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.

cosquillas

The act of tickling.

cosquillear

(transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.

cosquilleo

An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.

cosquilloso

Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.

costa

The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]

costado

(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.

costal

A sack made from burlap, used for agricultural produce.

costanera

The land alongside a body of water.

costanero

(geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

costar

(transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

costarle

To have difficulty with something.

costear

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually, after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.

costeño

(geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

costero

(geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

costilla

(nautical) Any of the curved rib-like timbers that form the frame of a wooden ship.

costillar

A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.

costo

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

costosamente

In an expensive manner.

costoso

Of high cost; expensive.

costra

A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

costumbre

Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

costumizar

To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.

costura

(sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.

costurera

A woman who sews clothes professionally.

costurero

A person who sews clothes professionally.

costurón

A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

cota

A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.

cota de malla

A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.

cota de referencia

A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.

cotejar

(transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.

cotejo

An inspection or examination.

coterráneo

Somebody from one's own country.

cotidianamente

quotidianly, every day

cotidiano

That occurs every day, or at least every working day.

cotilla

(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.

cotillear

(ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

cotilleo

Gossip.

cotillera

(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.

cotillón

(dance) A bold dance performed in groups of eight where women lift their skirts to display their ankles. [from 1766]

cotización

Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.

cotizar

(transitive) To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.

coto

(pathology, UK) An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.

coto de caza

(British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.

cotorra

(informal) One who chats or talks to excess.

cotorrear

(intransitive) To talk idly.

cotorreo

Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.

cototo

A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.

cotufas

(chiefly, uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.

coturno

(historical) A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.

couch

(originally, Oxford University, _, slang) A trainer or instructor.

counter

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted

cousín

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

covacha

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

coxa

(anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

coxis

(medical, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

coya

The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.

coyote

(canid) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

coyotero

(US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.

coyunda

(often, _, specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.

coyuntura

The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

coyuntural

Extremely important.

coyuyo

Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.

crac

(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

crack

(obsolete) One who excels; the best, especially a winning racehorse.

Cracovia

A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.

crakearse

(intransitive) To form cracks.

crampón

An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

craneal

(anatomy) Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull.

cráneo

(skeleton) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

crápula

(obsolete or literary) Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.

craquearse

(intransitive) To form cracks.

cras

On the day after the present day.

crascitar

The harsh cry of a crow.

crashear

(transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.

Craso

(historical) Marcus Licinius Crassus, a Roman general.

Crater

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.

crayola

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

crayón

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

creacionista

Of or relating to creationism.

creador

(religion) A god who created the Universe; God.

creadora

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

crear

(transitive, figurative) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).

crear basuraleza

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

creativa

(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

creativamente

In a creative manner.

creatividad

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.

creativo

(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

creatura

A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.

crecer

(intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.

creciente

The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.

crecimiento

(uncountable, also, figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth. [from early 17th c.]

credencial

A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.

credenciales

(computing) Credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer, program, network, etc.

credibilidad

The state or quality of being believable.