abbreviature

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) An abbreviated state or form. [1]
  3. 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 []
  4. (obsolete) The process of abbreviating. [1]

Translations

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References

  1. 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

  1. plural of abbreviatura

Latin

Participle

abbreviātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of abbreviātūrus