abbrevio

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See also: abbreviò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abˈbrɛ.vjo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛvjo
  • Hyphenation: ab‧brè‧vio

Verb

abbrevio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of abbreviare

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ad- +‎ breviō. Attested from the fourth century CE.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

abbreviō (present infinitive abbreviāre, perfect active abbreviāvī, supine abbreviātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. to shorten, abbreviate, abridge
    • c. 360 CE – 400 CE, Vegetius, De Re Militari 3:
      Quae per diversos auctores librosque dispersa imperator invicte mediocritatem meam abbreviare iussisti ne vel fastidium nasceretur ex plurimis vel plenitudo fidei deesset in parvis.
      These are the maxims and instructions dispersed through the works of different authors, which Your Majesty has ordered me to abridge, since the perusal of the whole would be too tedious, and the authority of only a part unsatisfactory.
  2. to break off
  3. to weaken
  4. to epitomize

Conjugation

   Conjugation of abbreviō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present abbreviō abbreviās abbreviat abbreviāmus abbreviātis abbreviant
imperfect abbreviābam abbreviābās abbreviābat abbreviābāmus abbreviābātis abbreviābant
future abbreviābō abbreviābis abbreviābit abbreviābimus abbreviābitis abbreviābunt
perfect abbreviāvī abbreviāvistī abbreviāvit abbreviāvimus abbreviāvistis abbreviāvērunt,
abbreviāvēre
pluperfect abbreviāveram abbreviāverās abbreviāverat abbreviāverāmus abbreviāverātis abbreviāverant
future perfect abbreviāverō abbreviāveris abbreviāverit abbreviāverimus abbreviāveritis abbreviāverint
passive present abbrevior abbreviāris,
abbreviāre 		abbreviātur abbreviāmur abbreviāminī abbreviantur
imperfect abbreviābar abbreviābāris,
abbreviābāre 		abbreviābātur abbreviābāmur abbreviābāminī abbreviābantur
future abbreviābor abbreviāberis,
abbreviābere 		abbreviābitur abbreviābimur abbreviābiminī abbreviābuntur
perfect abbreviātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect abbreviātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect abbreviātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present abbreviem abbreviēs abbreviet abbreviēmus abbreviētis abbrevient
imperfect abbreviārem abbreviārēs abbreviāret abbreviārēmus abbreviārētis abbreviārent
perfect abbreviāverim abbreviāverīs abbreviāverit abbreviāverīmus abbreviāverītis abbreviāverint
pluperfect abbreviāvissem abbreviāvissēs abbreviāvisset abbreviāvissēmus abbreviāvissētis abbreviāvissent
passive present abbrevier abbreviēris,
abbreviēre 		abbreviētur abbreviēmur abbreviēminī abbrevientur
imperfect abbreviārer abbreviārēris,
abbreviārēre 		abbreviārētur abbreviārēmur abbreviārēminī abbreviārentur
perfect abbreviātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect abbreviātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — abbreviā — — abbreviāte —
future — abbreviātō abbreviātō — abbreviātōte abbreviantō
passive present — abbreviāre — — abbreviāminī —
future — abbreviātor abbreviātor — — abbreviantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives abbreviāre abbreviāvisse abbreviātūrum esse abbreviārī abbreviātum esse abbreviātum īrī
participles abbreviāns — abbreviātūrus — abbreviātus abbreviandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
abbreviandī abbreviandō abbreviandum abbreviandō abbreviātum abbreviātū

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “abbrevio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abbrevio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abbrĕviare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 26
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