The corpus record — Latin

brevio

brevio · v. a

to shorten

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Where it lives

Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3 · 0.6/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

brĕvĭo — Lewis & Short

brĕvĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.brevis,

I to shorten, abbreviate, abridge, braxu/nw brevio, Gloss. Vet. (post-Aug.; cf. Burm. Anth. Lat. 1, p. 76; most freq. in Quint.); Manil. 3, 461; 6, 431: breviare quaedam, Quint. 1, 9, 2: aliquid callide, id. 5, 13, 41 Spald. N. cr.: prolixa (in scribendo), Lact. Epit. 8, 6; Sev. Sulp. Hist. Sacr. 1, 1: breviatae horae, Paul. Nol. Carm. Nat. S. Fel. 24, 9, 13: umerorum raro decens allevatio atque contractio est. Breviatur enim cervix, Quint. 11, 3, 83: non breviatis augustatisque gradibus ascenditur, Sid. Ep. 2, 2.—

II Transf.: Syllabam, to pronounce short, Quint. 12, 10, 57.

In the wild

brevia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.36.p4
brevia Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.12.5
brevia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.26
brevia Ausonius, Parentalia 27.2
breviatum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.21
brevia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.24

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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