curtus

From Proto-Italic *kortos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥tós (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).^[1] 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. More at shirt.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkurt̪us]

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

1. shortened, short
2. mutilated, broken, incomplete

First/second-declension adjective.

• curtiventris

• curtō
• Curtius

• Dalmatian:
  • cort
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: corto
  • Neapolitan: curto
  • Sicilian: curtu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: curt
  • Ladin: curt
  • Romansch: curt
  • Venetan: curto
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: curt
  • Franco-Provençal: côrt
  • Old French: curt
    • French: court
    • Walloon: coû
  • Occitan: cort
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cortu
  • Galician: corto
  • Portuguese: curto
  • Spanish: corto
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: curtu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtum
  • Aromanian: shcurtu
  • Romanian: scurt
  • →? Albanian: shkurt
• → English: curt
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kurt (see there for further descendants)

• “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016