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curto
curto
Galician
Adjective
curto m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas)
Antonyms
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.toː/, [ˈkʊr.toː]
Verb
curtō (present infinitive curtāre, perfect active curtāvī, supine curtātum); first conjugation
- I shorten, cut short, abbreviate.
Inflection
Descendants
References
- curto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “curto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, *(s)k(ʷ)Art-, *(s)k(ʷ)Ard- (“short”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkuɾ.tu/
- Hyphenation: cur‧to
Adjective
curto m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural curtos, feminine plural curtas, comparable)
- short (having a small distance between ends or edges)
Quotations
For usage examples of this term, see Citations:curto.