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Added 9 October 2026

cottage

/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/ noun

In Latin: casa, tugurium Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cottage at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A small house.
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.
A public lavatory.

verb

To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Origin

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut.

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