curt
See also: Curt
English
Etymology
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish corto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Adjective
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 1227855:
- 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 [...]
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- Short or concise.
Verb
curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)
Translations
brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
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short or concise
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References
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “curt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “curt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “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
Interlingue
Old French
Noun
curt f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort
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