curtus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kortos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥tós (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). 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 and curt. More at shirt.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkurt̪us]
Adjective edit
curtus (feminine curta, neuter curtum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | curtus | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta | |
Genitive | curtī | curtae | curtī | curtōrum | curtārum | curtōrum | |
Dative | curtō | curtō | curtīs | ||||
Accusative | curtum | curtam | curtum | curtōs | curtās | curta | |
Ablative | curtō | curtā | curtō | curtīs | |||
Vocative | curte | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Eastern Romance
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Occitano-Romance
- Old French: curt
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: curtu
- Venetian: curto
- West Iberian
- → English: curt
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kurt (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “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