curtus

curtus

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *kortos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥tós (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).[1] Cognate with Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ (“short”), Scots short, schort (“short”), Old High German scurz (“short”) (Middle High German schurz, Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (Danish skorte), (maybe) Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), English short. More at shirt.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    curtus (feminine curta, neuter curtum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. shortened, short
    2. mutilated, broken, incomplete

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative curtus curta curtum curtī curtae curta
    genitive curtī curtae curtī curtōrum curtārum curtōrum
    dative curtō curtae curtō curtīs
    accusative curtum curtam curtum curtōs curtās curta
    ablative curtō curtā curtō curtīs
    vocative curte curta curtum curtī curtae curta

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Emilian: cûrt
    • Insular Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Late Latin: curtiō (“viper”)
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtus

    Borrowings:

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “curtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158

    Further reading

    • “curtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “curtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "curtus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “curtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • curtus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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