COMITIVA. _Span._ and _Port._ Suite, following, company. COMMERCIO. _Port._ Commerce. _Span. comercio_. COMPANHEIRO. _Port._ Companion, comrade. COMPRAR. _Span._ and _Port._ To buy. COMUNERO. _Span._ A member or partisan of the Communities of Castile. See Burke’s _Hist. of Spain_, ii. 316. CON. _Span._ With. CONCIUDADANO. _Span._ A fellow-citizen. CONDE. _Span._ and _Port._ A count, or earl. Lat. _comes_. A title at one time greater than that of duke in Spain. See Burke’s _Hist. of Spain_, i. 148. CONDENADO. _Span._ Condemned, damned. CONQUISTAR. _Span._ and _Port._ To conquer. CONSTITUCION. _Span._ Constitution; the constitution of 1812. CONTRABANDISTA. _Span_ and _Port._ A smuggler. CONVERSACION. _Span._ Conversation. As an interjection, “Folly! rubbish!” COPITA. _Span._ A wine-glass, or small drinking-cup; dimin. of _copa_. COPLA. _Span._ and _Port._ A couplet, or a few lines of poetry. The original Spanish of the lines quoted ii. 62 is as follows— “Un manco escribió una carta; Un siego {395} la está mirando; Un mudo la está leyendo; Y un sordo la está escuchando.” (Rodriguez Marin, _Cantos Populares Españoles_, tom. iv. p. 364, No. 7434.) CORAHAI or CORAJAI. _Rom._ The Moors of Northern Africa. P. ii. 127; A. 27; Pp. 320; M. vii. 64. CORAHANÓ, fem. CORAHANÍ. _Rom._ A Moor. See CORAHAI. CORCHETE. _Span._ and _Port._ A catchpoll. Lit. a clasp; _corchetes_ are “hooks and eyes.” CORÇO. _Gal._ A stag, or deer. CORDOVES. _Span._ Of or belonging to Cordova. CORREGIDOR. _Span._ A municipal magistrate. Orig. a _co-regidor_, or joint administrator of the law; not, as Midshipman Easy and the Boatswain decided, a _corrector_, though the word also has that signification in Spanish. As regards the magistrate, the second _r_ is superfluous and etymologically deceptive. CORRIDA. _Span._ and _Port._ A racecourse; bull-fight. CORTAMANGA. The word is not given in any dictionary that I have consulted. Borrow evidently alludes to a vulgar and obscene gesture, usually called _un corte de mangas_. It is made by bringing down the right hand on the left forearm, and raising the left forearm, with the middle finger of the left hand raised and the other fingers bent. It is not under _corte_ or _manga_ either in Covarrubia or the 1730 edit. of the _Dic. Acad. Esp._, or more recent ones, probably on account of its indecent signification. I have never seen it written. The finger part of the business is of course as old as the Romans, and survives still in Italy. CORTE. _Span._ and _Port._ The king’s court; more particularly the city where the court resides—thus the capital. Applied colloquially and in commercial correspondence to Madrid, Lisbon, Rio Janeiro, etc. CORTEJO. _Span._ and _Port._ A lover. Orig. courtesy or homage. _Cortejar_ = to do homage to.