breve

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  1. noun A symbol ( ˘ ) placed over a vowel to show that it has a short sound, as the a in bat.
  2. noun A curved mark used to indicate a short or unstressed syllable of verse.
  3. noun Music A note equivalent to two whole notes.

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  • He writes upon a sonata Presto, or even Prestissimo and alia breve, and plays it Allegro in 4-4 time. —  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
  • La pagina breve: Antologia di racconti italiani del Novecento joined the IU Bloomington faculty in 2004 as an assistant professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, and also sits on the Philanthropic Studies faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. —  IU News: Arts and Humanities
  • Google Bomb em breve, já existe mobilização em torno; —  Global Voices Online
  • One minute you're drinking a vanilla breve, the next, some creepy old dude is breathing on you, turning you into a zombie. —  Ciaralira
  • The remaining Unicode symbols are a few uses of letters a, e, s and z with breve (curved line) above, and letters a and u with a macron (straight line) above. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, written communication, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, short syllable, from Latin, neuter of brevis, short; see brief.

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  1. from Italian breve = French brève, feminine (bref, masculine), from Latin brevis, short: see brief.
  2. from Middle English breven (= Middle Dutch brieven = Old High German brieven = Icel, brēfa), from Middle Latin breviarc, write down, narrate, properly note in brief, from Latin brevis, brief, whence breve, English brief, a writing, a brief: see breve, n., brief, n. and v., and breviate.
 

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