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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin abbreviātūra, from Late Latin abbreviō (“shorten, abbreviate”). See also abbreviate.
Pronunciation
Noun
abbreviature (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviatures)
- An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract. [1]
a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Via Pacis:This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian.
- (obsolete) An abbreviated state or form. [1]
- A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation. [1]
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 37:The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters […]
- (obsolete) The process of abbreviating. [1]
Translations
abridgement, compendium, abstract
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbreviature”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
Italian
Noun
abbreviature
- plural of abbreviatura
Latin
Participle
abbreviātūre
- vocative masculine singular of abbreviātūrus