breviature

English

Etymology

See abbreviature.

Noun

breviature (plural breviatures)

(obsolete) An abbreviation.
- 1715, Louis Jobert, The Knowledge of Medals:
  The Names of Offices and Magiſtracies, which are never found but in Breviature

References

“breviature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

breviātūre

vocative masculine singular of breviātūrus

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