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Breve

noun

A diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.

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"Breve" Quotes from Famous Books

... transliterated and shown between marks. Vowels with macron ("long" mark) have a circumflex accent instead. Vowels with breve ("short" mark, not common) have been unpacked and shown in ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... this one, I can say with the Psalmist, "I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight" (Psalm 72). And I can say it with St. Columban, Totum, dicere volui in breve, totem non potui. In the book I quote Cardinal Bona. In his wonderful Rerum Liturgicarum (II., xx., 6) he wrote what I add as a finish, ...

— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... century, than in any other. Blancas refers to no less than twenty-three within that period, averaging nearly one in four years. (Commentarii, Index, voce Comitia.) In Catalonia and Valencia, the cortes was to be summoned every three years. Berart, Discurso Breve sobre la Celebracion de Cortes de Aragon, ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

Words linked to "Breve" : alla breve, diacritical mark, diacritic