# cottage
## 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, 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

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒtɪd͡ʒ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑtɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾɪd͡ʒ]
* Audio (US):(file)
** (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈkɑtəd͡ʒ/, [ˈkɑɾəd͡ʒ]
* Hyphenation: cot‧tage
* Rhymes: -ɒtɪdʒ

### Noun

cottage (plural cottages)
* A small house.
    Synonyms: cot, hut
* A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
    Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
* (UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
* (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
    Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house

#### Derived terms

* cottage bacon
* cottage cheese
* cottage cheese ass
* cottagecore
* cottage food operation
* cottage fried potatoes
* cottage fries
* Cottage Grove
* cottage home
* cottage hospital
* cottage industry
* cottageless
* cottagelike
* cottage loaf
* cottage orchard
* cottage orné
* cottage parent
* cottage piano
* cottage pie
* cottage pudding
* cottager
* cottage suite
* cottagey
* Creole cottage
* electronic cottage
* summer cottage
* Swiss Cottage
* 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)
* To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
* (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

### References

* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “kuta”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 313-14
* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Cottage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

### Further reading

* cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Eric Partridge (2005) “cottage”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 486.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cottage.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.taʒ/
* (also) IPA: /kɔ.tɛdʒ/

### Noun

cottage m (plural cottages)
* cottage

### Further reading

* “cottage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Noun

cottage m (uncountable)
* cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)