curt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /kɝt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
- Homophone: Kurt
Adjective
[edit]curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)
- Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
- Short or concise.
Translations
[edit]brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude — see also terse
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short or concise
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Verb
[edit]curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)
- (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
- Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
Derived terms
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkurt]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkuɾt]
Audio (Catalonia): (file) - Homophone: kurd
- Rhymes: -uɾt
Adjective
[edit]curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “curt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “curt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “curt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “curt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]curt m (feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)
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[edit]Ladin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]curt
- alternative form of court
Old Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *kurt, which is a borrowing from Latin curtus.
Adjective
[edit]curt
Inflection
[edit]Declension of curt (a-stem)
| strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
| nominative | curt | curt | curt | curta, curte | ||
| accusative | curtan, curten | curta | curt | curta, curte | ||
| genitive | curtes | curtero | curtes | curtero | ||
| dative | curtin, curtemo | curtero | curtin, curtemo | curton | ||
| weak declension | ||||||
| case | masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
| nominative | curto | curta | curta | curton | ||
| accusative | curton | curton | curta | curton | ||
| genitive | curtin | curton | curtin | curtono | ||
| dative | curtin | curton | curtin | curton | ||
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “kurt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old French
[edit]Noun
[edit]curt oblique singular, f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)
- (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of cort
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian kurta.
Adjective
[edit]curt m or n (feminine singular curtă, masculine plural curți, feminine/neuter plural curte)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | curt | curtă | curți | curte | |||
| definite | curtul | curta | curții | curtele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | curt | curte | curți | curte | |||
| definite | curtului | curtei | curților | curtelor | ||||
Noun
[edit]curt m (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | curt | curtul |
| genitive-dative | curt | curtului |
| vocative | curtule | |
References
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- Rhymes:Catalan/uɾt
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