brevitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-us

Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰusder.

Proto-Italic *breɣʷis

Latin brevis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin brevitās

From brevis (“short, little, of small extent”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛ.wɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛː.vi.tas]

Noun

brevitās f (genitive brevitātis); third declension

1. (of space) shortness; narrowness
2. (of time) briefness, brevity, shortness
3. (of discourse) conciseness, terseness, brevity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	brevitās	brevitātēs
genitive	brevitātis	brevitātum
dative	brevitātī	brevitātibus
accusative	brevitātem	brevitātēs
ablative	brevitāte	brevitātibus
vocative	brevitās	brevitātēs

Related terms

• brevī
• breviārius
• breviātiō
• breviātor
• breviculus
• breviloquēns
• breviloquentia
• breviloquium
• breviloquus
• breviō
• brevis
• breviter

Descendants

• Catalan: brevetat
• English: brevity
• French: brièveté
• Galician: brevidade
• Italian: brevità
• Occitan: brevitat
• Portuguese: brevidade
• Romanian: brevitate
• Spanish: brevedad

References

• “brevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “brevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “brevitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.