verb/e.kuʁ.te/
to shorten, curtail (make shorter e.g. by cutting); to shorten (become shorter); to dock, clip (cut the tail of e.g. a dog); to cut short, curtail (shorten the time of something); to cut short, cut
Inherited from Old French escurter, from Late Latin excurtāre, from Latin curtāre. By surface analysis, é- + court + -er.