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- n. A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.
- n. grammar Particularly in Slavonic languages, a shortened form of adjective, used predicatively.
Examples
“Neri short form for [906] Neriah (Jehovah is my lamp) son of Melchi and father of Salathiel, in the genealogy of Christ.”
“When a manuscript was fully written the scribe wrote his colophon or "explicit," a short form of the phrase "explicitus est fiber.”
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
“Jerusalem," the Urusalim of the Amarna tablets; the same short form appears in Ps 76: 2.”
“Greeks, and gave it the short form preserved in the choir-books of the West.”
“If you want to apply to more than one school and these schools use different student aid applications, you may be able to use a short form called a Request for Information Transfer and have the information from the federal portion of one application sent to another school of your choice.”
“In the Gallican Rite the long Benediction was reserved for bishops only, a short form (Pax et caritas D.N. J.C. et communicatio sanctorum omnium sit semper nobiscum) being said by priests.”
“The outcome of Moore and Benbasat’s 1991 study was a set of twenty-eight scale items to measure the five attributes, and a short form of this scale with fifteen scale items.”
“(Matthew 1: 14) The Hebrew form of the name would be Jachin, which is a short form of Jehoiachin, the Lord will establish.”
“Elohim is the plural of Eloah (in Arabic Allah); it is often used in the short form EL (a word signifying strength, as in EL-SHADDAI,”
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