A shortened or abridged version of a text; an abbreviation or summary.
From Latin 'breviatura' meaning 'an abridgment' (from 'breviate'), forming a noun that describes the product of shortening or summarizing written material.
This noun form shows how medieval writers tried to capture the concept of 'making things short'—while modern English settled on 'abbreviation,' our ancestors used 'breviature' for the same idea.
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