curto
Meaning
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- short (having a small distance between ends or edges)
- short (of little duration)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cur‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkuʁ.tu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese curto, corto, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, *(s)k(ʷ)Art-, *(s)k(ʷ)Ard- (“short”).
New
curtir
- to tan (to change an animal hide into leather)
- to pickle (to store food in a solution)
- (figuratively) to be able to suffer through something
- (colloquial) to enjoy; to like (doing something)
- (Internet) to like (to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote)
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