curtus

Latin

From Proto-Italic *kortos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥tós (“short”), from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).^[1] 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. More at shirt.

curtus (feminine curta, neuter curtum); first/second-declension adjective

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	curtus	curta	curtum	curtī	curtae	curta
genitive	curtī	curtae	curtī	curtōrum	curtārum	curtōrum
dative	curtō	curtae	curtō	curtīs
accusative	curtum	curtam	curtum	curtōs	curtās	curta
ablative	curtō	curtā	curtō	curtīs
vocative	curte	curta	curtum	curtī	curtae	curta

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: curtu
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: cort
- Italian: corto
- Neapolitan: curto
- Sicilian: curtu
- Venetan: curto
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: curt
- Ladin: curt
- Romansch: curt
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: curt
- Franco-Provençal: côrt
- Occitan: cort
- Old French: curt
  - French: court
  - Walloon: coû
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: cortu
- Galician: corto
- Portuguese: curto
- Spanish: corto
⇒ Late Latin: curtiō (“viper”)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtiō
  - Catalan: escurçó
  - Italian: scorzone
  - >? Spanish: escuerzo
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtus
- Aromanian: shcurtu
- Romanian: scurt
- →? Albanian: shkurt

Borrowings:

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “curtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158

“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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016