Curtain

Morpheme

Curtain

Type

free base

Denotation

cloth covering

Etymology

Middle English curtine; Old French cortine; Latin cōrtīna, from cōrtis + īna, from cōrs, from cohortis, from cohors, from co- +‎ -hors, from hortus

Evidence

becurtain, bedcurtain, curtain, curtained, curtainfic, curtaining, curtainless, curtainlike, curtains, curtainwall, curtainwise, encurtain, encurtained, encurtaining, encurtains, incurtain, precurtain, recurtain, uncurtain

Notes

curtain and cortina are doublets

See Also

co-, Hort