curtate

Latin curtatus, past participle of curtare (“to shorten”).

curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)

1. shortened, having been shortened
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

• curtation

• cut-rate

curtāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of curtō