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corto

/ˈkoɾto/

adjective/ˈkoɾto/

short (having a small distance from one end to another); short (having little duration); dim-witted, slow; cut; A type of coffee made out of roughly 80% milk and 30% coffee

Synonyms: breve, cortito, cortado

Antonyms: largo

Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short. The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content.

noun, masculine/ˈkoɾto/plural: cortos

A type of coffee made out of roughly 80% milk and 30% coffee

Related: a corto plazo, alicorto, atar corto, cortedad, cortísimo, cortito, corto de luces, corto siglo veinte, cortocircuito, cortometraje

Inherited from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt and short. The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content.

noun, masculine/ˈkoɾto/plural: cortos

short (short film)

Shortening of cortometraje.

noun, masculine/ˈkoɾto/plural: cortos

short (short circuit)

Shortening of cortocircuito.

noun, masculine/ˈkoɾto/plural: cortos

a glass of pure liquor