Cortes

any of several legislative assemblies of Spain and Portugal; parliamentary chambers which exercise the power to craft legislation and control the actions of government as elected representatives of the public or, historically, in an advisory role to a reigning monarch

Related: Cortes Generales

A proper noun usage of cortes (“courts, chambers”) from Vulgar Latin cōrtēs, plural of cōrs, cōrtis, a short form via syncope of Latin cohortem (“court; enclosure”) from co- + hortus (“garden, country house, villa”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”) from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).