corto
See also: cortó
Asturian
Verb
corto
- first-person singular present indicative of cortar
Galician
Alternative forms
- curto
Etymology
From Old Portuguese corto, curto, from Latin curtus.
Adjective
corto m (feminine singular corta, masculine plural cortos, feminine plural cortas)
- short (length)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkor.to/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -orto
- Hyphenation: cór‧to
Adjective
corto (feminine corta, masculine plural corti, feminine plural corte, superlative cortissimo)
- short
- Antonym: lungo
Related terms
- cortezza
Noun
corto m (plural corti)
- Abbreviation of cortometraggio.
Anagrams
- torco
Portuguese
Verb
corto
- first-person singular present indicative of cortar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoɾto/ [ˈkoɾ.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -oɾto
- Syllabification: cor‧to
Etymology 1
From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. Cognate with English curt.
Adjective
corto (feminine corta, masculine plural cortos, feminine plural cortas)
- short (having a small distance from one end to another)
- Antonym: largo
- short (having little duration)
- Synonym: breve
- Antonym: largo
- (colloquial) dim-witted, slow
- Synonym: cortito
Derived terms
- a corto plazo
- alicorto
- cortísimo
- cortito
- cortocircuito
- corto de luces
- cortometraje
- corto siglo veinte
- pantalón corto
- parador en corto
Related terms
- cortar
- corte
Etymology 2
Shortening of cortometraje.
Noun
corto m (plural cortos)
- short (short film)
Etymology 3
Shortening of cortocircuito.
Noun
corto m (plural cortos)
- short (short circuit)
Noun
corto m (plural cortos)
- (Chile) a glass of pure liquor
Etymology 5
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
corto
- first-person singular present indicative of cortar
Further reading
- “corto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014