curtus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kortos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥tós (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkurt̪us]

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

• curtiventris

Related terms

• curtō
• Curtius

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • cort
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: corto
  • Neapolitan: curto
  • Sicilian: curtu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: curt
  • Ladin: curt
  • Romansch: curt
  • Venetan: curto
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: curt
  • Franco-Provençal: côrt
  • Old French: curt
    • French: court
    • Walloon: coû
  • Occitan: cort
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cortu
  • Galician: corto
  • Portuguese: curto
  • Spanish: corto
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: curtu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtum
  • Aromanian: shcurtu
  • Romanian: scurt
  • →? Albanian: shkurt
• → English: curt
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kurt (see there for further descendants)

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’s 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016