abbreviere

abbreviēre

1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of abbreviō

From Latin abbreviāre, present active infinitive of abbreviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both ad- (“to”), from ad (“to, towards, up to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”) + and from breviō (“I shorten, abbreviate, abridge”), from both brevis (“short, small; brief, low”), from Proto-Italic *breɣʷis (“short, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”), from *mreǵʰ- (“short”) + and from -ō, from Proto-Italic *-āō or *-aēō, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-yé-ti, from *-eh₂ + *-yéti.

• 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 by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form)
   • 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

   Synonym: forkorte

• 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