brachylogy

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From brachy- +‎ -logy, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek βραχυλογία (brakhulogía), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + λογία (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

Noun

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

concise speech

• French: brachylogie (fr) f
• German: Brachylogie f
• Greek: βραχυλογία (el) f (vrachylogía)
• Italian: brachilogia (it) f
• Malay: brakilogi
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• Portuguese: braquilogia f
• Slovak: brachylógia (sk) f
• Spanish: braquilogía f
• Swedish: brakylogi c

See also

• ellipsis