abbrevio
See also: abbreviò
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abbrevio
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Etymology edit
From ad- + breviō. Attested from the fourth century CE.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈbre.u̯i.oː/, [äbˈbreu̯ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈbre.vi.o/, [äbˈbrɛːvio]
Verb edit
abbreviō (present infinitive abbreviāre, perfect active abbreviāvī, supine abbreviātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
- to shorten, abbreviate, abridge
- c. 360 CE – 400 CE, Vegetius, De Re Militari 3:
- Quae per diversos auctores librosque dispersa imperator invicte mediocritatem meam abbreviare iussisti ne vel fastidium nasceretur ex plurimis vel plenitudo fidei deesset in parvis.
- These are the maxims and instructions dispersed through the works of different authors, which Your Majesty has ordered me to abridge, since the perusal of the whole would be too tedious, and the authority of only a part unsatisfactory.
- Quae per diversos auctores librosque dispersa imperator invicte mediocritatem meam abbreviare iussisti ne vel fastidium nasceretur ex plurimis vel plenitudo fidei deesset in parvis.
- to break off
- to weaken
- to epitomize
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- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: abbreviare
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: abreviar
- → French: abrévier
- → Middle English: abbreviaten
- English: abbreviate
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviere
- → Romanian: abrevia (or via Italian/French)
References edit
- “abbrevio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abbrevio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abbrĕviare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 26