curtate

English

Etymology

Latin curtatus, past participle of curtare (“to shorten”).

Adjective

curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)

1. shortened, having been shortened
2. (astronomy) said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic

Derived terms

• curtation

Translations

shortened

• Bulgarian: съкратен (bg) (sǎkraten), скъсен (bg) (skǎsen)

Anagrams

• cut-rate

Latin

Verb

curtāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of curtō