Italian Spanish and Portuguese: from corte 'court' (from Latin cohors cors genitive cohortis cortis 'court farmyard enclosure') applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or as a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one. Compare Italian La Corte . English: variant of Court .

The current Spanish constitution refers to the monarchy as "The Crown" and the constitutional title of the monarch is simply rey/reina de Espaa: that is, "king/queen of Spain". However, the constitution allows for the use of other historic titles pertaining to the Spanish monarchy, without specifying them.