breviarium

See also: breviárium

Latin

Etymology

From brevis (“short”) + -arium

Noun

breviārium n (genitive breviāriī or breviārī); second declension

1. A short piece of writing: a brief, a report
2. A shortened piece of writing, variously:
   1. A summary, abstract, or overview

      Eutropii Breviarium Historiae Romanae

      Eutropius's Summary of Roman History

   2. (literary) A epitome or abridgment
   3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A breviary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breviārium	breviāria
Genitive	breviāriī breviārī1	breviāriōrum
Dative	breviāriō	breviāriīs
Accusative	breviārium	breviāria
Ablative	breviāriō	breviāriīs
Vocative	breviārium	breviāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “breviarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers