Where the Romanian word “scurt” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Probabil lat. *excurtus (= curtus) sau din scurta (derivat regresiv).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (adv.):
Probabil lat. *excurtus (= curtus) sau din scurta (derivat regresiv).
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Vulgar Latin excurtus ← Latin curtus
- In film dialogue
- 99 times per million words · number 759 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 289 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 198 157 221 279 237 - Swap in a synonym
- puțin (Unknown origin), jos (Inherited Latin), omorî (Old Slavic), redus (Made in Romanian), strâns (Made in Romanian), repede (Inherited Latin), brusc (French), mărginit (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card