different between curat vs curt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kj????t/

Noun

curat (plural curats)

1. (obsolete) A cuirass or breastplate.

Anagrams

• turca

Aromanian

Etymology

From the past participle of cur or possibly Latin c?r?tus. Compare Daco-Romanian curat.

Adjective

curat m (feminine curatã)

(masculine singular past passive participle of cur used as an adjective)

1. cleaned
2. clean

   Synonyms: albu, chischin, pãstrit, spastru, spilat

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin c?r?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ku??at/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

curat m (feminine curada, masculine plural curats, feminine plural curades)

1. past participle of curar

Latin

Verb

c?rat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of c?r?

Romanian

Etymology

From cura or Latin cur?tus, past participle of c?r? (“take care”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?rat/

Adjective

curat m or n (feminine singular curat?, masculine plural cura?i, feminine and neuter plural curate)

1. clean

   Antonym: murdar

Declension

Derived terms

• cur??a

English

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with German kurz, Galician corto, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Homophone: Kurt

Adjective

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.

   Synonym: brusque
2. Short or concise.

Translations

Verb

curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.
   • 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

     Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.

Derived terms

• curtly
• curtness
• curtail

Related terms

• shirt
• short
• skirt

References

• An historical dictionary

Anagrams

• crut

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ku?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kurt/
• Homophone: kurd

Adjective

curt (feminine curta, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtes)

1. short

   Antonym: llarg

Derived terms

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.
• “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

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine curte, masculine plural curts, feminine plural curtis)

1. short

Related terms

• scurtâ

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin curtus.

Adjective

curt m (feminine singular curta, masculine plural cursc, feminine plural curtes)

1. brief, short

Related terms

• scurter

Old French

Noun

curt f (oblique plural curz or curtz, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curz or curtz)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of cort