Where does “decurt” come from?
decurt (English) comes from Latin decurtare, from Latin curtare, from Latin curto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer- — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.
decurt (English): To cut short; to curtail
Ancestry of “decurt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | decurtare | — |
| 2 | Latin | curtare | present active infinitive of curtō; second-person... |
| 3 | Latin | curto | I shorten, cut short, abbreviate |
| 4 | Latin | curtus | shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |