Noun: brevis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | brevis |
| Plural | brevēs |
Genitive
| Singular | brevis |
| Plural | brevium |
Dative
| Singular | brevī |
| Plural | brevibus |
Accusative
| Singular | brevem |
| Plural | brevēs; brevīs |
Ablative
| Singular | breve |
| Plural | brevibus |
Vocative
| Singular | brevis |
| Plural | brevēs |
Sample Sentences
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que quidem notule alique vocantur longe et alique breves (Among these notes, some are called "longae" and others "breves".) [d. 1369 CE, Simon Tunsted (attributed), Quattuor principalia musicae 256b (as cited in "brevis", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources)]
Nouns inflected like brevis
scobis,
sellāris,
frātruēlis,
emphasis,
auriculāris,
draconcopedis,
baculāris,
concīvis,
emphyteosis,
hyoseris,
rebellis,
seselis,
apocatastasis,
padūlis,
prŏneptis,
decēris,
bipennis,
prognōsis,
scrobis,
versipellis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Short for brevis liber.
Verbs referencing "brevis"
English Nouns
brief, Dutch Nouns
brief, English Nouns
semibreve, English Nouns
breve, Dutch Nouns
breve, Italian Nouns
breve, Portuguese Nouns
breve, Icelandic Nouns
bréf, English Nouns
brevet, Catalan Nouns
breu, Middle English Nouns
bref, Faroese Nouns
bræv, Latvian Nouns
vēstule, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
abbreviatur.
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