Curt
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘short, shortened’): from Latin curtus ‘cut short, abridged’.
wiktionary
From the Latin curtus(“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
etymonline
curt (adj.)
mid-14c., court, "short, concise, compressed," from Latin curtus "(cut) short, shortened, incomplete," from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut." Sense of "rude, tartly abrupt" is attested by 1831.
The Latin word was adopted early into most Germanic languages (compare Icelandic korta, German kurz, etc.) and drove out the native words based on Proto-Germanic *skurt-, but English retains short (adj.), which also has a secondary sense of "rudely abrupt." Related: Curtal.
