See also: abbreviò

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /abˈbrɛ.vjo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛvjo
  • Hyphenation: ab‧brè‧vio

Verb

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abbrevio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of abbreviare

Latin

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Etymology

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From ad- +‎ breviō. Attested from the fourth century CE.[1]

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Verb

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abbreviō (present infinitive abbreviāre, perfect active abbreviāvī, supine abbreviātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to shorten, abbreviate, abridge
    • c. 360 CE – 400 CE, Vegetius, De Re Militari 3:
      Quae per diversos auctores librosque dispersa imperator invicte mediocritatem meam abbreviare iussisti ne vel fastidium nasceretur ex plurimis vel plenitudo fidei deesset in parvis.
      These are the maxims and instructions dispersed through the works of different authors, which Your Majesty has ordered me to abridge, since the perusal of the whole would be too tedious, and the authority of only a part unsatisfactory.
  2. to break off
  3. to weaken
  4. to epitomize

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References

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  • abbrevio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abbrevio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abbrĕviare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 26