different between cottage vs cabana

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.

Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t?d?/
• Hyphenation: cot?tage

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

   Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

Related terms

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

Descendants

• ? French: cottage

Translations

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Further reading

• cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.ta?/

Noun

cottage m (plural cottages)

1. cottage

Portuguese

Noun

cottage m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cabaña. Doublet of cabin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??bæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Noun

cabana (plural cabanas)

1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
2. (Canada, US) A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.

Translations

See also

• cabin

Further reading

• “cabana”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Catalan

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??ba.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?ba.na/

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanes)

1. Alternative form of cabanya (“hut”)

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin capanna, attested by Isidore of Seville, and well documented in local Medieval charters at least since the 10th century. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate of English cabin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??ana?/

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. cabin, hut, shack; barn
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:

     pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas p?nas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas, et fezerõ logo desto moradas pequenas asy cõmo cabanas ou choças enque morassem.

     they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses, and so they made of these some minor dwellings, such as cabins or huts, where they can live

   Synonyms: alboio, alpendre, cabanel, pendello

Derived terms

References

• “cabana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cabana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cabana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cabana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabana” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chabana

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin capanna.

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) cabin, hut

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?ba?na
• Rhymes: -??na

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. cabin, hut, shack