brevi-, brev- [brie-, bri-] +

Abridged, shortened, cut short.

The -brev- in this word comes from Latin brevis, "short", which is also the source of brief. Therefore, abbreviate means to make briefer, to make shorter by combining or omitting.

Something that has been cut short or abridged; shortened.

The act or process of shortening; abbreviation, compression.

1. The result of abbreviating; an abbreviated or reduced form; short summary, abridgement.
2. A shortened form of a spoken word, or written symbol; a part of a word or symbol standing for the whole.

One who abbreviates, abridges, or shortens.

1. To shorten; to make shorter, to cut short in its duration, to lessen the duration of; originally of time, or things occupying time.
2. To make shorter in words, while retaining the sense and substance of the written text; to condense, epitomize.
3. To produce by shortening from or abridging (a larger work); to condense from.
4. To curtail, to lessen, to diminish (rights, privileges, advantages, or authority).
5. Etymology: from Middle English abregen and Old French abregier, abreger, "to shorten"; from Latin abbreviate; from Latin ad- and breviare, "to shorten"; and from brevis, "short".

Shortened, cut short; contracted, condensed.

One who or that which abridges, shortens, or makes abridgments; a summarizer, synoptist, or compiler.

The act or process of shortening the duration of any thing, or lessening it; or of making a short compendium or abstract of a larger work.

1. The act or process of abridging or shortening; a shortening of time or labor; a curtailment of privileges.
2. A compendium of a larger work, with the details abridged, and less important things omitted, but retaining the sense and substance; an epitome, or abstract.
3. Abridgment, or abridgement, appeared c. 1494, borrowed from Old French abregement, from abreger.

1. A summary, a short code of instructions, etc.
2. A writ by which a person was summoned or attached to answer an action, complaint, etc. in a court of law.
3. A small curved mark, like a tiny smile, placed over a vowel to signify that the vowel has a short sound; as with such words as: cat, pet, sit, hot, up.

An official document granting certain privileges from a sovereign or government; specifically, in the army, a document conferring nominal rank on an officer, but giving no right to extra pay.

1. A brief statement, summary, epitome.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, the book containing the “Divine Office” for each day, which those who are in orders are bound to recite.

Having a short tail.

An abnormal shortness of the neck.