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

1. The act of shortening, or reducing.
2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. -
3. 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.
4. (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