brevier

See also: Brevier

English

Etymology

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French or (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *brevier, from Latin breviārium (“breviary”), presumably from its use in printing them. Most breviaries were not, however, printed with such small type, leading some to conjecture that it instead derived from cognates of brief and has a meaning similar to French petit and German Petit.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

brevier (uncountable)

1. (typography, printing, dated) The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

Synonyms

• (French contexts): small text
• (French and German contexts): petit

Derived terms

• two-line brevier

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: petit (nl), brevier (nl), galjard
• French: gaillarde (fr), petit-texte
• German: Petit, Jungfer (de), Jungfrawschrift
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• Italian: testino (it)
• Spanish: gallarda

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

brevier n (plural brevieren, diminutive breviertje n)

1. breviary

See also

• getijdenboek

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) brevier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of breviō