curtus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert- (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with 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
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | curtus | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta | |
Genitive | curtī | curtae | curtī | curtōrum | curtārum | curtōrum | |
Dative | curtō | curtō | curtīs | ||||
Accusative | curtum | curtam | curtum | curtōs | curtās | curta | |
Ablative | curtō | curtā | curtō | curtīs | |||
Vocative | curte | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta |
Related terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: cort
- Italian: corto
- Neapolitan: curto
- Old French: curt
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cortu
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: curto, corto
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: corto
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: curtu
- Sicilian: curtu
- Venetian: curto
- → English: curt
- → Proto-Germanic: *kurtaz
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *curtius
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtus
References
- “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