breve
Meaning
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- (feminine,masculine) brief, short
- (feminine,masculine) summarized
- (feminine,masculine) minute (very small)
Frequency
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.
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