Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOf speech or style: brief, concise, to the point. · Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt. · Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.
From Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of Latin tergeō, tergō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”).
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