excurto

Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ curtō. Attested in the Lex Salica and Lex Alamannorum.[1]

Verb

excurtō (present infinitive excurtāre, perfect active excurtāvī, supine excurtātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to cut (a tail)

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: shcurtedz
    • Romanian: scurta
    • → Albanian: shkurtoj
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: scortare (regional)
    • Venetan: scortar
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: scurtèr
    • Lombard: scurtar
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtiāre (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “excurtare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 390
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