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- Latin · borrowed fromdēcurtātus
- English todaydecurtate
First attested around the beginning of the 16th century; borrowed from Latin dēcurtātus, perfect passive participle of dēcurtō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of decurt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.