different between portolan vs ortolan

English

Etymology

From French portulan, from Italian portolano.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??t?l?n/

Noun

portolan (plural portolans)

1. (historical, nautical) A chart of European navigable waters based on descriptions of coasts. [from 18th c.]
   • 2012, Simon Garfield, On the Map, Profile Books 2012, p. 110:

     Portolans are as old as the European mariner's magnetic compass, and for about two centuries the two depended on each other for the growth and safe passage of Mediterranean trade.

Translations

Alternative forms

• portolano
• portulan

Anagrams

• pronotal

English

Etymology

From Middle French hortolan (“gardener”), from Latin hortul?nus (“gardener”). Doublet of hortulan.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.t?l.?n/, /???.t?l.æn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.t?.læn/, /???.t?.l?n/

Noun

ortolan (plural ortolans)

1. A small European migratory bunting (Emberiza hortulana), once eaten whole as a delicacy.
   • 2003, Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food, page 73

     […] the last flavor Mitterand wished to savor belonged to the flesh of the endangered ortolan, a songbird the size of a human toe that is a crime to buy or hunt, and is certainly illegal to eat. Mitterand devoured it in the traditional manner, first covering his head with an embroidered cloth, then inserting the entire bird into his mouth. […] Only its head should dangle out from between your lips. Bite off the head and discard.

2. (US) Any of various similar birds, especially the bobolink, sora, or snow bunting.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ortolan.

Hypernyms

• (a small bird eaten as a delicacy): bird, delicacy

Translations

French

Etymology

From occitan, from Latin hortul?nus (“gardener”). Cognate with dialectal French hortelain ("gardener").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?.l??/

Noun

ortolan m (plural ortolans)

1. ortolan (small bird)

Related terms

• horticulture

Further reading

• “ortolan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From French ortolan, from Middle French hortolan, from Latin hortul?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?t?.lan/

Noun

ortolan m anim

1. ortolan (small bird eaten as a delicacy)

Declension

Further reading

• ortolan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ortolan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ortolan.

Noun

ortolan m (plural ortolani)

1. ortolan

Declension