brevi
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brevi
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brevi
- inflection of breviare:
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Etymology edit
From ablative of brevis (“short, small”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbre.u̯iː/, [ˈbreu̯iː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbre.vi/, [ˈbrɛːvi]
Adverb edit
brevī (not comparable)
- soon, shortly
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.1:
- Brevi stirpis quoque virilis ex novo matrimonio fuit
- In a short time, moreover, there was a male scion out of the new marriage
- Brevi stirpis quoque virilis ex novo matrimonio fuit
- briefly, with few words
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From in + *breve
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brevī
References edit
- “brevi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- brevi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a short survey of a thing: in brevi conspectu ponere aliquid
- in short; to be brief: ut paucis (brevi, breviter) complectar
- in short; to be brief: ut brevi comprehendam
- in short; to be brief: ut brevi praecīdam
- to make a short survey of a thing: in brevi conspectu ponere aliquid
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)