curt definition
Overview
This page has 8 definitions of curt with English translations in 4 languages. Curt is an adjective, verb and noun. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English curt definition
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(key): /kɝt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /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.
- 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.
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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.
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Catalan curt definition
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkuɾt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈkurt/
Audio (file) - Homophone: kurd
- Rhymes: -uɾt
Adjective
curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)
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, 2023
- “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 curt definition
Etymology
Adjective
curt m (feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)
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Ladin curt definition
Etymology
Adjective
curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)
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Middle English curt definition
Noun
curt
- Alternative form of court
Old French curt definition
Noun
curt f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort