Thursday, March 01, 2007

WORD A DAY

ABBREVIATE: to make briefer; especially: to reduce to a shorter form intended to stand for the whole

"Abbreviate" and "abridge" both mean "to make shorter," so it should come as no surpris that both derive from the Latin word brevis, meaning "short." "Abbreviate" first appeared in print in English in the 15th century and derives ultimately from the Late Latin abbreviare, which in turn can be traced back to brevis. "Abridge," which appeared a century earlier, came from abbreviare but took a side trip through Anglo-French before arriving in Middle English as abregen. Brevis is also the ancestor of the English"brief" and "brevity," as well as "breviary," a prayer book or brief sumary.

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