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Translate terse into Spanish
Sparing in the use of words; abrupt.
Early 17th century from Latin tersus ‘wiped, polished’, from the verb tergere. The original sense was ‘polished, trim, spruce’, (relating to language) ‘polished, polite’, hence ‘concise and to the point’ (late 18th century).