Words that come from Latin “curtus”

291 words across 51 languages descend from Latin curtus — including courtesy, curtly, curtail, curt, curtailment, curtsey, curtsy, discourtesy.

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Finnish (39)

English (26)

Norwegian Bokmål (26)

German (23)

Norwegian Nynorsk (17)

Spanish (17)

Italian (16)

Dutch (15)

Swedish (14)

Latin (12)

French (9)

Portuguese (7)

Asturian (6)

Vulgar Latin (4)

Old High German (3)

Danish (3)

Hungarian (3)

Catalan (3)

Middle English (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Romanian (3)

Friulian (2)

Ladin (2)

Galician (2)

Venetian (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Old French (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norman (2)

Middle French (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Aromanian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Tarantino (1)

Saterland Frisian (1)

Old English (1)

Walloon (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Late Latin (1)

Middle High German (1)