Where does “curtus” come from?

curtus (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer- — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.

curtus (Latin): shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete

Definitions

  1. shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete

Ancestry of “curtus”, step by step

curtus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European(s)ḱer-dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth

via Proto-Italic kortos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italickortosshortened

Words derived from “curtus”

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