breve

Meaning

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
bre‧ve
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɾɛ.vi/
Etymology

Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.

Cognate with Spanish
Spanish
breve

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