brevitas

Latin

Etymology

From brevis (“short, little, of small extent”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛ.wɪ.taːs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛː.vi.t̪as]

Noun

brevitās f (genitive brevitātis); third declension

(of space) shortness; narrowness
(of time) briefness, brevity, shortness
(of discourse) conciseness, terseness, brevity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	brevitās	brevitātēs
genitive	brevitātis	brevitātum
dative	brevitātī	brevitātibus
accusative	brevitātem	brevitātēs
ablative	brevitāte	brevitātibus
vocative	brevitās	brevitātēs

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: brevetat
English: brevity
French: brièveté
Galician: brevidade
Italian: brevità
Occitan: brevitat
Portuguese: brevidade
Romanian: brevitate
Spanish: brevedad

References

“brevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“brevitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
brevitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.