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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• curtail:
    1. I. Lit.: to cut off a part: dēcurto, praecīdo, mŭtĭlo: v. to mutilate, shorten, cut off.
    2. II. Fig.: (much more freq. in this sense). to limit, diminish:
      1. 1. arto or arcto, 1 (to bring within narrower limits): fortune moulds and c.s the fortunes of men, fortuna humana fingit a.que, Pl.: in rewards and in honours everything was c.'d, in praemiis, in honoribus omnia artata, Liv.: to c. oneself, i. e. one's expenses, artare se, Ulp.
      2. 2. cŏarto, 1 (in same sense): Cic., who uses it of curtailing or compressing in speech: Liv.
      3. 3. immĭnuo, mĭnuo, 3: v. to diminish. Phr.: to c. the honour due to a class, detrahere honorem debitum ordini, Cic.: to c. the advantages of a city, commoda urbis mutilare, Cod. Just.: to c. ambitious ornaments, ornamenta ambitiosa recīdere, Hor.: circumcidere, Quint. Join: circumcidere et amputare (multitudinem sententiarum), Cic.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• CURTAIL
  • curtare: decurtare (to shorten by cutting off apart): detruncare (to cutoff and so mutilate): subsecare (to cut off below, or a small part): abscidere (not abscindere: to shorten by hewing off a part): praecidere (to cut or hew off a piece in front): recidere; also praecidere (to cut from off the ends, to clip; e.g., pilos, the hair): resecare (to cut off what is too long).
  • FIG. to curtail anybody’s power, pinnas alicujus or nervos alicujus incidere: to curtail anybody’s anything, praecidere alicui aliquid (e.g., his liberty): to curtail one’s expenses, parce vivere: sumtus circumcidere: modum facere sumtibus: impensas corripere (with regard to luxury, the last in Suet., Tiberius, 34); se cohibere (to restrain one’s self in one’s manner of living, in general): to curtail anything that one has written; e.g., commentarios, commentaries, writings, etc., in angustum cogere (Sen., Ep. 39, 1): injuria detrahere aliquid de aliqua re (to curtail or diminish in an unjust manner; e.g., anybody’s wages or salary-, de alicujus mercede, after Cic., Verr., 3, 78, 182): deminuere partem alicujus rei, or aliquid de aliqua re: detrahere de re (to lessen anything by the abstraction of a part): fraudare aliquem parte alicujus rei (e.g., servitia parte cibi diurni): To curtail anybody of his rights, deminuere partem juris or aliquid de jure; detrahere de jure.