curtail

• vt.減らす；短くする；...特権などを...奪う。

PIE*skerの「刈る」「切る」が語源で、語源的にはshearの「短くする」と同じ。本来は尾を短くした馬のことだが、tailの影響で低俗な表記になった。

curtail

curtail: [16] The now defunct English noun curtal meant ‘horse with a docked tail’. It was borrowed in the 16th century from French courtault, a derivative of the adjective court ‘short’. Like English curt [17] this came from Latin curtus ‘cut off, shortened’, which in common with English short and shear, can be traced back to an Indo-European base *ker- or *sker- ‘cut’. In the late 16th century the noun was converted into a verb, originally meaning literally ‘dock a horse’, and the close semantic link with ‘tails’ led to its alteration to curtail.
=> cuirass, curt, shear, shirt, short, skirt

curtail (v.)

late 15c., from Middle French courtault "made short," from court "short" (Old French cort, from Latin curtus; see curt) + -ault pejorative suffix of Germanic origin. Originally curtal; used of horses with docked tails, which probably influenced the spelling in general use; curtal is retained in poetics to describe a "shortened" stanza or poem. Related: Curtailed; curtailing.

1. I told Louie that old age would curtail her activities in time.

私はルイに、年を取ると彼女の活動量が減ると言った。

2.NATO plans to curtail the number of troops being sent to the region.

NATOは、この地域に派遣される兵士の数を削減する計画だ。

3.It is necessary to curtail or alter normally coexisting stimuli.

正常時に併存する刺激を除去または変更する必要があります。

4.Again the purpose of this action was to curtail infration.

この行動の目的はインフレを抑制することにある。

5.In all cases we 'll curtail baggage handling.

いずれの場合も、荷物の発送を簡略化します。