curtus
Latin
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊr.tʊs]
Inflection
First/second declension.
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 | 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 |
Descendants
- Dalmatian: cort
- Italian: corto
- Neapolitan: curto
- Old French: curt
- French: court
- Walloon: coû
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cortu
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Old Portuguese: curto, corto
- Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: corto
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: curtu
- Sicilian: curtu
- Venetian: curto
- → English: curt
- → 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, 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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