curtate

First attested in 1676; borrowed from Latin curtātus, perfect passive participle of curtō (“to shorten”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)

1. Shortened, having been shortened.

   Synonyms: truncate, truncated

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.
3. (actuarial science, of a lifetime random variable) Rounded down.

• cut-rate

curtāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of curtō