Italian

Verb

abbrevio

1. first-person singular present indicative of abbreviare

Latin

Alternative forms

• adbreviō

Etymology

Frequentative from ad- +‎ breviō ‎(“shorten, abbreviate”), from brevis ‎(“short”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /abˈbre.wi.oː/, [abˈbrɛ.wi.oː]

Verb

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

1. I 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. (Late Latin) I epitomize.
3. I break off.
4. I weaken.

Inflection

Derived terms

• abbreviatiō

Descendants

References

• abbrevio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abbrevio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.