Word Origin Summary

Cortigiana is attested in Italian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• kurtisan

  Swedish · derived from

• curtezană

  Romanian · borrowed from

• courtisanerie

  English · derived from

• courtisane

  Dutch · derived from

• courtisane

  Middle French · borrowed from

• courtisane

  French · borrowed from

• kurtyzana

  Polish · derived from

• courtesan

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root