curto
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
curto (feminine curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas)
- 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
Related terms edit
References edit
- “curto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “curt” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “curto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “curto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “curto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.toː/, [ˈkʊrt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.to/, [ˈkurt̪o]
Verb edit
curtō (present infinitive curtāre, perfect active curtāvī, supine curtātum); first conjugation
- to shorten, cut short, abbreviate
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- Albanian: shkurtoj
- Aromanian: shcurtedz
- Aromanian: shcurtari
- Asturian: cortar
- French: écourter
- English: curt
- Friulian: scurtâ
- Galician: cortar
- Interlingua: curtar
- Italian: accorciare
- Ladin: scurter
- Occitan: escortar
- Papiamentu: kòrta
- Portuguese: cortar, encurtar
- Provençal: escortar
- Romanian: scurta, scurtare
- Spanish: cortar
- Venetian: scortar
References edit
- “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.
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
curto (feminine singular corta, masculine plural curte, feminine plural corte)
References edit
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “curto-corta”, in Schedario Napoletano
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cur‧to
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, *(s)k(ʷ)Art-, *(s)k(ʷ)Ard- (“short”).
Adjective edit
curto (feminine curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:curto.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
curto
Spanish edit
Verb edit
curto
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin curtus. Compare Italian corto.
Adjective edit
curto (feminine singular curta, masculine plural curti, feminine plural curte)