Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. · Short or concise.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cut, cut short, shorten.
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.
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