curtus

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 and curt. More at shirt.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
• (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.

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

• curtō
• Curtius

Descendants

• Dalmatian: cort
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: shcurtu
  • Romanian: scurt
• Italian: corto
• Neapolitan: curto
• Old French: curt
  • French: court
  • Walloon: coû
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: cortu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: curt
  • Occitan: cort
• Old Portuguese: curto, corto
  • Galician: corto, curto
  • Portuguese: curto
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: corto
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: curt
  • Ladin: curt
  • Romansch: curt
• Sardinian: curtu
• Sicilian: curtu
• Venetian: curto
• → English: curt
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kurt
  • Old Frisian: kurt, kort
    • Saterland Frisian: kuut
    • West Frisian: koart
  • Old Saxon: *kurt
    • Middle Low German: kort
      • German Low German: kort, kört, kurt
      • → Old Norse: kurtr, kortr
        • Danish: kort
        • Faroese: kortur
        • Icelandic: kortur
        • Norwegian: kort
        • Swedish: kort
  • Old Dutch: kurt
    • Middle Dutch: curt, cort
      • Dutch: kort
        • Afrikaans: kort
        • Negerhollands: kort, kot
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: kort
  • Old High German: kurz
    • Middle High German: kurz, korz, kurt
      • Central Franconian: kurt, kurz, korz; koot

        Hunsrik: korz

        Luxembourgish: kuerz

      • German: kurz
      • Yiddish: קורץ‎ (kurts)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *curtius
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: curtiu
  • Sardinian: curtzu, crutzu, cursu, cruciu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtus
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: shcurtu
    • Romanian: scurt
  • → Albanian: shkurt (unlikely)

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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016