brevis

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛ.wɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛː.vis]

From Proto-Italic *breɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus. Cognates include Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús), English merry, Sanskrit मुहु (muhu).^[1]

brevis (neuter breve, comparative brevior, superlative brevissimus, adverb breviter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (of distance) short, small, little, narrow
2. (of time) brief, short
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Catullus 5 4–6:

     Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt:
     nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx,
     nox est perpetua ūna dormienda.

     Suns are able to set and to return: for us, when the brief light sets once and for all, there is one perpetual night to sleep.

3. (of height or depth) short, low, shallow
4. (phonology, of a syllable) short

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• (distance): parvus
• (time): parvus

• (antonym(s) of “distance, time”): longus
• (antonym(s) of “height”): altus

Short for brevis liber.

brevis m (genitive brevis); third declension

2. (Late Latin) short catalog, summary

   Synonym: breviārium

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Short for brevis syllaba.

brevis f (genitive brevis); third declension

1. dactyl

   Synonym: dactylus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

brevis f (genitive brevis); third declension

1. (orthography, printing) breve
2. (music) breve (British), whole note (US)
   • d. 1369 CE, Simon Tunsted (attributed), Quattuor principalia musicae 256b, (as cited in "brevis", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):

     que quidem notule alique vocantur longe et alique breves

     Among these notes, some are called "longae" and others "breves".

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• English: breve
• Italian: breve

• “brevis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “brevis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "brevis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “brevis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • for a short time: brevis or exigui temporis