English
Etymology
Late Latin abbreviatio: compare French abréviation ; from Latin ab, from, + brevis , short, + ending -ation indicating a verbal noun of action or process; abbreviate + -ion .
Noun
- The act of shortening, or reducing.
- The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. -
- The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
- (Music): One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers , semiquavers , demi-semiquavers , or hemi-demi-semiquavers . -
Translations
- Catalan: abreviatura f
- Chinese: 缩写 ()
- Czech: krácení n (1), zkrácení n (1,2), zkratka f (2,3)
- Danish: forkortelse c
- Dutch: afkorting f
- Ekspreso: abreviesion
- Esperanto: mallongigo
- Finnish: lyhentäminen (1), lyhennys (1), lyhennös (2), lyhenne (2,3)
- French: abréviation f
- Frisian: ôfkoarting
- German: Abkürzung f
- Greek: περιληψη
- Indonesian: singkatan
- Interlingua: abbreviation (3)
- Irish: giorrú m (gs -rraithe, pl -rruithe)
- Italian: abbreviazione
- Japanese: 略称 (りゃくしょう,riikusho)
- latin: abbreviation
- Norwegian: forkortelse
- Portuguese: abreviatura
- Slovak: skratka f (2, 3)
- Spanish: abreviatura f
- Swedish: förkortning c
- Russian: сокрaщение
