curto

Meaning

curtir

  1. to tan (to change an animal hide into leather)
  2. to pickle (to store food in a solution)
  3. (figuratively) to be able to suffer through something
  4. (colloquial, transitive) to enjoy; to like (doing something)
  5. (colloquial, intransitive) to party
  6. (Internet) to like (to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote)

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Concepts

short
brief
terse
curt

knee high to a grasshopper

laconic
narrow
concise
staccato
succinct
shortcrust
to the point
cuttie
crisp
nonverbose
Opposite of
longo, comprido
Synonyms

breve
A2
lacônico
redondo
C2
curta
B2
curta
B2
pequeno
A1
baixo
A1
Translations

court
corto
kurz
kort
corto
kurt
curt
kısa
brevis
kin
قصير

qut

breve
bref
Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkuʁ.tu/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin
Latin
curtus
In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, *(s)k(ʷ)Art-, *(s)k(ʷ)Ard- (“short”).

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