curtus

Latin

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert-, *(s)ker- (“short”). Cognate with Scots short, schort (“short”), Old High German scurz (Middle High German schurz, “short”), Old Norse skorta (Danish skorte, “to lack”), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), English short. More at shirt.

curtus (feminine curta, neuter curtum); first/second declension

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	curtus	curta	curtum	curtī	curtae	curta
Genitive	curtī	curtae	curtī	curtōrum	curtārum	curtōrum
Dative	curtō	curtae	curtō	curtīs	curtīs	curtīs
Accusative	curtum	curtam	curtum	curtōs	curtās	curta
Ablative	curtō	curtā	curtō	curtīs	curtīs	curtīs
Vocative	curte	curta	curtum	curtī	curtae	curta

Dalmatian: cort
Italian: corto
Neapolitan: curto
Old French: curt
- French: court
- Walloon: coû
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cortu
Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Catalan: curt
- Occitan: cort
Old Portuguese: curto, corto
- Galician: corto, curto
- Portuguese: curto
Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: corto
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: curt
- Ladin: curt
- Romansch: curt
Sardinian: curtu
Sicilian: curtu
Venetian: curto
→ English: curt
→ Germanic: *kurtaz
- 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
- Old High German: kurz
  - Middle High German: kurz, korz, kurt
    - Central Franconian: kurt, kurz, korz
    - German: kurz
    - Luxembourgish: kuerz
    - 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)

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, 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

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