βραχύτης

From βρᾰχῠ́ς (brakhús, “short”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

βρᾰχῠ́της • (brakhútēs) f (genitive βρᾰχῠ́τητος); third declension

1. shortness
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 283c
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138
   1. narrowness, deficiency
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.42
2. smallness
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 2.354a.18
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3. (prosody) shortness of a syllable
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 400c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1456b.32
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.947e
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.100
4. scantiness
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 62.59
5. shallowness
   • Scyl. 112
6. (rhetoric) use of a condensed or allusive expression
   • Trypho, Trop. 202S

• (antonym(s) of “shortness”): μῆκος (mêkos)

• “βραχύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βραχύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βραχύτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βραχύτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brevity idem, page 97.
  • briefness idem, page 98.
  • insignificance idem, page 445.
  • shortness idem, page 769.