curt

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See also: cûrt and Curt

English

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (shortened). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

Pronunciation

Adjective

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)

  1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
    Synonyms: brusque, short
    • 1960, P G Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it
  2. Short or concise.

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Verb

curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
    • 1608, Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes .">…], 3rd edition, London: Humfrey Lownes ], published 1611, →OCLC:
      Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.

Derived terms

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin curtus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)

  1. short
    Antonym: llarg

Derived terms

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)

  1. short

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)

  1. brief, short

Middle English

Noun

curt

  1. alternative form of court

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kurt, which is a borrowing from Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt

  1. short

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: curt, cort

References

  • kurt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

Noun

curt oblique singularf (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of cort

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian kurta.

Adjective

curt m or n (feminine singular curtă, masculine plural curți, feminine and neuter plural curte)

  1. short-tailed

Declension

Declension of curt
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite curt curtă curți curte
definite curtul curta curții curtele
genitive-
dative
indefinite curt curte curți curte
definite curtului curtei curților curtelor

Noun

curt m (uncountable)

  1. short-tailed animal

Declension

Declension of curt
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative curt curtul
genitive-dative curt curtului
vocative curtule

References

  • curt in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN