# 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

* (General American) IPA: /kɝt/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɜːt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
* Homophone: Kurt

### Adjective

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)
* Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
    Synonyms: brusque, short
** 1960, P[elham] G[renville] 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 […]
* Short or concise.

#### Translations

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### Verb

curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)
* (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
** 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.

#### Derived terms

* curtly
* curtness
* curtail
* curtailment
* kirtle

### Related terms

* shirt
* short
* skirt

### References

* An historical dictionary

### Anagrams

* crut

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin curtus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkurt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkuɾt]
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: kurd
* Rhymes: -uɾt

### Adjective

curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)
* short
    Antonym: llarg

#### Derived terms

* a curt termini
* acurtar
* curt de gambals
* curtament
* curtmetratge
* ona curta

### Further reading

* “curt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “curt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “curt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “curt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin curtus.

### Adjective

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

#### Related terms

* scurtâ

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin curtus.

### Adjective

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

#### Related terms

* scurter

## Middle English
### Noun

curt
* Alternative form of court

## Old French
### Noun

curt oblique singular, f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort