Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 241.breuis on page 241
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brevis short
brevis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means short.
Definitions for brevis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
short, small, brief
English derivatives:
brevity breviary abbreviate abridge
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Having (only) a small spatial extent: (a) (w. ref. to length) Short. (b) (w. ref. to height) low: (of trees, etc.) stunted, low; (of persons or animals) short in stature; (of stature) short. (c) (W. ref. to depth) shallow; (neut. as sb., usu. pl.) shallow water, shallows. (d) (w. ref. to width) narrow. (e) (w. ref. to area) narrow. confined, small.
- 2
(w. pl. sb.) Occurring at short intervals, close together.
- 3
(of amounts, weights, etc.) Small; (where the unit is itself regarded as small) even so much as a, a mere. (b) (in compar.) a smaller amount of, less; (w. abl. of compar.) short of, less than. (c) modest, humble, slight, simple.
- 4
(of journeys, routes, etc.; combining temporal w. spatial conceptions) Short, quick.
- 5
(of periods of time) Of (only) short duration, brief; (where the unit is itself regarded as short) a mere, a brief. (b) ad (in) ~e tempus, for (only) a short time; ~i tempore (spatio), after the lapse of, or within, (only) a short time, soon (after); also, for (only) a short time. (c) Occurring after the lapse of (only) a short interval, early, speedy.
Sentences with brevis
Latin to English
Quam brevis erat dulcis vīta eius!Compare How brief was his sweet life!
Illud bellum breve erat difficile.Compare That short war was difficult.
Brevī tempore omnia iūra cīvium mūtābit.Compare In a short time he will change all the rights of the citizens.
Lībertās populō ab rēge tertiō brevī tempore dabitur.Compare Liberty will be given to the people by the third king in a short time.
Cum perīculum magnum esset, omnēs cōpiās et arma brevī tempore contulērant.Compare Since the danger was great, they brought all their troops and arms together in a short time.
Ā tē petō ut ex nāve ad īnsulam brevī tempore redeās.Compare I beg of you to return from the ship to the island in a short time.
Sī amīcīs eius Rōmae nocuissent, Rōmam brevissimō tempore redīsset.Compare If they had injured his friends at Rome, he would have returned to Rome in a very short time.
Declension table for brevis
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | brevis | brevia |
| Gen. | brevis | brevium |
| Dat. | brevī | brevibus |
| Acc. | brevis | brevia |
| Abl. | brevī | brevibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 107.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 241.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 123.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "brevis, breve (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/brevis-breve.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.brevis, breve on page 107
