Dictionaries › Italian

breve

Pronunciation: /ˈbrɛ.ve/

“breve” is an Italian word. Its 14 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. brief, short
  2. narrow
  3. short

adverb

  1. briefly

noun

  1. short (short vowel or syllable)
  2. breve (the diacritical mark ˘)
  3. breve (double whole note)
  4. a document recording a business transaction
  5. an oath sworn by magistrates of a medieval commune
  6. the statute of a commune.
  7. an official papal document, less solemn than a bull
  8. a strip of paper with a short writing thereon
  9. a small bundle containing a saint's relic or written prayers
  10. talisman, amulet

In Italian

  1. di non lunga durata.
  2. striscia di carta, pergamena o stoffa, svolazzante, bifida, col motto scritto
  3. nota o pausa pari al doppio di una semibreve
  4. lettera del papa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin brevis (“short”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “breve” there

More Italian words

About this dictionary

The Italian dictionary on Glottosphere has 148,089 entries with a page. Browse the Italian dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Italian are from the Italian Wiktionary, under the same licence.