Etymology

curtana

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Today it means: A short sword used for ceremonial purposes Full definition →

Latin curtus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcurtus“short”
  2. English todaycurtana

From Latin curtus (“short”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.