abbreviere

abbreviēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of abbreviō

Borrowed from Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre (“to shorten, abbreviate”).

• IPA^(key): /abrɛʋɪˈeːrə/

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• Rhymes: -eːrə
• Hyphenation: ab‧bre‧vi‧e‧re

abbreviere (passive abbrevieres, imperative abbrevier, present tense abbrevierer, simple past abbrevierte, past participle abbreviert, present participle abbrevierende, verbal noun abbreviering)

1. (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 [have only] had abbreviated transcripts to go after

• abbreviatur (“ligature, abbreviation”)
• abbreviasjon (“abbreviation, shortening”)
• abbreviator (“abbreviator”)

• “abbreviere” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abbreviere” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abbreviere” in Store norske leksikon