WordInfo for: "curta"

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Morphology

Lemmata
- curto (external link: curto)
- curtus (external link: curtus)

Dictionary

Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- curto
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- curtus
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Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- curto
  - Curto, curtas, curtâre. Horat.
    To diminish or make short.
- curtus
  - Curtus, Adiectiuum.
    Short: little: small. Curtum & Redundans, pugnantia. Cic. Dolia curta. Lucret. Curtus mulus. Horat. A mule emptie without furniture. Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei. Horat. An vnperfite thing alway lacking somewhat. Curta sententia. Cic. An vnperfite sentence. Curta suppellex. Pers. Tecum habita, & noris qum sit tibi curta suppellex, And know how small thy substance is. Curtus calix. Martial. A broken cuppe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- curto
  - curto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [curtus], to shorten, diminish (not ante-Aug., and very rare): aliquid, Cels. 7, 9: radices, Pall. Feb. 10, 3.—
    II. Trop., to diminish: rem, Pers. 6, 34; cf.: Quantulum enim summae curtabit quisque dierum, Hor. S. 2, 3, 124.
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- curtus
  - curtus, a, um, adj. [root in Sanscr. kart, to cut; cf. Germ. kurz], shortened, mutilated, broken, short (class.; most freq. in the poets).
    I. Lit.: dolia, pots (chamber vessels), Lucr. 4, 1026; cf. vasa, Juv. 3, 271: pergula, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 70: testa, Mart. 3, 82, 3; cf. testu, Ov. F. 2, 645 al.. calix, Mart. 1, 92, 6: curtum temone jugum, Juv. 10, 135: latus, Mart. 12, 32, 13: Judaei, i. e. circumcised, Hor. S. 1, 9, 70; cf. equus, castrated, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 20; but curto mulo, with shortened tail ( = curtatā caudā), Hor. S. 1, 6, 104. —
    II. Trop.: res, Hor. C. 3, 24, 64 (cf. curto, II.): centussis, a clipped piece, Pers. 5, 191: sententia quasi curta, Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 36: fides ingratae patriae, Juv. 14, 166 al.— Of defective, incomplete discourse, Cic. Or. 50, 168; 51, 173; Lact. 6, 15.
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