curtate

Meaning

1. Shortened, having been shortened.
2. Said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic.
3. Rounded down.

Synonyms

abbreviated

cutty

unabridged

decurtate

Translations

abbreviato

accorcito

abbreviatus

abreviado

truncado

Etymology

First attested in 1676; borrowed from Latin curtātus, perfect passive participle of curtō (“to shorten”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).