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Latin
Verb
abbreviēre
- second-person singular present passive subjunctive of abbreviō
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre (“to shorten, abbreviate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abrɛʋɪˈeːrə/
- Rhymes: -eːrə
- Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧e‧re
Verb
abbreviere (passive abbrevieres, imperative abbrevier, present tense abbrevierer, simple past abbrevierte, past participle abbreviert, present participle abbrevierende, verbal noun abbreviering)
- (typography, transitive) to abbreviate (to reduce a word or phrase to a shorter recognizable form)
- Synonym: forkorte
1877, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter V,2, page 182:jeg [har kun] havt abbrevierede afskrivter at gaae efter- I had abbreviated transcripts to go after
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