brevio
See also: breviò
Italian
Verb
brevio
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From brevis (“short; brief”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbre.u̯i.oː/, [ˈbreu̯ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbre.vi.o/, [ˈbrɛːvio]
Verb
breviō (present infinitive breviāre, perfect active breviāvī, supine breviātum); first conjugation
- I shorten, abbreviate, abridge (especially speech or writing).
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “brevio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- brevio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.