abbrevio
See also: abbreviò
Italian
Verb
abbrevio
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Frequentative from ad- + breviō (“shorten, abbreviate”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈbre.u̯i.oː/, [äbˈbreu̯ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈbre.vi.o/, [äbˈbrɛːvio]
Verb
abbreviō (present infinitive abbreviāre, perfect active abbreviāvī, supine abbreviātum); first conjugation
- I 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
- (Late Latin) I epitomize.
- I break off.
- I weaken.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: abreviar
- → English: abbreviate
- Old French: abreger(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in abreger#Old French)
- French: abréger
- → French: abrévier
- Italian: abbreviare
- Portuguese: abreviar
- Spanish: abreviar
References
- “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.