curtos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →curtus, curta, curtum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
mutilated; incomplete, missing a part; circumcised; castrated, gelded; docked;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...bipes mensa, Et cum lucerna corneoque cratere Matella curto rupta latere meiebat; Foco virenti suberat amphorae cervix; Fuisse..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...calones atque caballi pascendi, ducenda petorrita. nunc mihi curto ire licet mulo vel si libet usque Tarentum, mantica..."
