curto

From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾto/ [ˈkuɾ.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -uɾto
• Hyphenation: cur‧to

curto (feminine curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas)

1. short

   Antonym: longo

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

     prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

     they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “curto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “curt”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “curto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “curto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “curto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From curtus (“short”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.toː/, [ˈkʊrt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.to/, [ˈkurt̪o]

curtō (present infinitive curtāre, perfect active curtāvī, supine curtātum); first conjugation

1. to shorten, cut short, abbreviate

• excurtō

• Asturian: cortar
• English: curt
• Galician: cortar
• Interlingua: curtar
• Papiamentu: kòrta
• Portuguese: cortar, encurtar
• Spanish: cortar
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *accurtiāre
  • Italian: accorciare

• “curto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “curto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Latin curtus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈkurtə]

curto (feminine singular corta, masculine plural curte, feminine plural corte)

1. short

• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “curto-corta”, in Schedario Napoletano

• Hyphenation: cur‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, *(s)k(ʷ)Art-, *(s)k(ʷ)Ard- (“short”).

curto (feminine curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas)

1. short (having a small distance between ends or edges)

   Antonyms: longo, comprido

2. short (of little duration)

   Antonyms: longo, comprido

For quotations using this term, see Citations:curto.

curto

1. first-person singular present indicative of curtir

curto

1. first-person singular present indicative of curtir

From Latin curtus. Compare Italian corto.

curto (feminine singular curta, masculine plural curti, feminine plural curte)

1. short
2. brief