curtus

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkurt̪us]

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

1. shortened, short
2. mutilated, broken, incomplete

First/second-declension adjective.

• curtō
• Curtius

• Dalmatian: cort
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: shcurtu
  • Romanian: scurt
• Italian: corto
• Neapolitan: curto
• Old French: curt
  • French: court
  • Walloon: coû
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: cortu
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: curt
  • Occitan: cort
• Old Portuguese: curto, corto
  • Galician: corto, curto
  • Portuguese: curto
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: corto
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: curt
  • Ladin: curt
  • Romansch: curt
• Sardinian: curtu
• Sicilian: curtu
• Venetian: curto
• → English: curt
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kurt
  • Old Frisian: kurt, kort
    • Saterland Frisian: kuut
    • West Frisian: koart
  • Old Saxon: *kurt
    • Middle Low German: kort
      • German Low German: kort, kört, kurt
      • → Old Norse: kurtr, kortr
        • Danish: kort
        • Faroese: kortur
        • Icelandic: kortur
        • Norwegian: kort
        • Swedish: kort
  • Old Dutch: kurt
    • Middle Dutch: curt, cort
      • Dutch: kort
        • Afrikaans: kort
        • Negerhollands: kort, kot
        • Skepi Creole Dutch: kort
  • Old High German: kurz
    • Middle High German: kurz, korz, kurt
      • Central Franconian: kurt, kurz, korz; koot

        Hunsrik: korz

        Luxembourgish: kuerz

      • German: kurz
      • Yiddish: קורץ‎ (kurts)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *curtius
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: curtiu
  • Sardinian: curtzu, crutzu, cursu, cruciu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *excurtus
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: shcurtu
    • Romanian: scurt
  • → Albanian: shkurt (unlikely)

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