curtus
Latin
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkʊrt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.tus/, [ˈkurt̪us]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | curtus | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta | |
| Genitive | curtī | curtae | curtī | curtōrum | curtārum | curtōrum | |
| Dative | curtō | curtō | curtīs | ||||
| Accusative | curtum | curtam | curtum | curtōs | curtās | curta | |
| Ablative | curtō | curtā | curtō | curtīs | |||
| Vocative | curte | curta | curtum | curtī | curtae | curta | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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