The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcurtus“shortened”
- English todaycurt
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.
Words from the same roots
Latincurtus all →
curtailcurtanakirtle
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.