breve

See also: brève and brêve

English

The letter A with breve (1).

Left: breve (2) in modern notation. Centre: breve in mensural notation used in some modern scores as well. Right: less common stylistic variant of the first form.

Etymology

From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːv/
• Rhymes: -iːv

Noun

breve (plural breves)

1. (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

   Synonym: micron

   Antonym: macron

2. (music) A double whole note.
3. (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
4. (zoology) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (), which has a very short tail.

Related terms

• brevity
• brief
• semibreve

 

Translations

semicircular diacritical mark

• Dutch: breve (nl) c
• Esperanto: hoketo
• Finnish: lyhyysmerkki (fi), breve (fi)
• German: Breve (de) n, Verkürzungszeichen n
• Greek: βραχεία (el) f (vracheía)

  Ancient: (ἡ) βραχεῖα (προσῳδία) f ((hē) brakheîa (prosōidía))

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• Hungarian: breve (hu), félkör (hu), (somewhat casual) rövidségjel, rövidjel, csónak (hu)
• Icelandic: skál (is) f
• Japanese: 短音記号 (tan'on kigō)
• Latin: signum correptionis n
• Russian: кра́тка (ru) f (krátka), бре́ве (ru) n (bréve), бре́вис m (brévis)
• Vietnamese: dấu trăng, dấu mũ ngược

double whole note

• Basque: karratu
• Catalan: quadrada (ca) f, breu (ca)
• Czech: brevis (cs)
• Dutch: brevis c
• Estonian: brevis (et)
• Finnish: brevis (fi)
• French: carrée (fr) f
• Galician: cadrada f
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• German: Brevis (de) f, Doppelganze f, Doppelganzenote f
• Irish: lán-nóta m
• Italian: breve (it) f
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} celinka f
• Spanish: cuadrada (es) f
• Swedish: brevisnot c
• Vietnamese: dấu tròn đôi

See also

• half note
• longa
• whole note

Further reading

• breve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bever, bever

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /breːvə/, [ˈb̥ʁeːvə], [ˈb̥ʁeːw̩]

Noun

breve n pl

1. indefinite plural of brev

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin brevis (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreː.və/

• Audio:

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Noun

breve f (plural breves, diminutive brevetje n)

1. (orthography) breve

Anagrams

• bever

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Interlingua

Adjective

breve (comparative plus breve, superlative le plus breve)

1. short

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin brevis (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛ.ve/
• Rhymes: -ɛve

Adjective

1. brief, short

   Synonym: corto

   Antonym: lungo

Derived terms

• a breve / tra breve
• brevemente
• brevità
• in breve

 

Adverb

breve

1. briefly

Noun

breve m (plural brevi)

1. (music) breve
2. brief (short news report)

Derived terms

• dibreve

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) breve

1. nominative neuter singular of brevis
2. accusative neuter singular of brevis
3. vocative neuter singular of brevis

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Middle English

Adjective

breve

1. Alternative form of bref

Noun

breve

1. Alternative form of bref

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɛ.vi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɛ.vɨ/
• Hyphenation: bre‧ve

Adjective

1. brief, short

   Synonym: curto

   Antonym: longo

2. summarized
3. minute (very small)

Derived terms

• até breve
• em breve

Related terms

• brevidade

Noun

breve f (plural breves)

1. (music) a double whole note (US) or breve (UK)
2. (phonetics) a syllable or vowel that is quickly pronounced

Noun

breve m (plural breves)

1. a Papal brief

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin brevis (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾe.be/, [ˈbɾe̞.βe̞]

Adjective

breve m or f (masculine and feminine plural breves) (superlative brevísimo)

1. brief, short

   Synonym: corto

   Antonym: largo

Derived terms

• brevedad
• en breve
• la vida es breve
• lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno