brief (of short duration)
köken: From Old French brief, from Latin brevis. A folk etymology derives it as an acronym of Bon, Revenons-En aux Faits, but this is completely inaccurate.
aile: dans les plus brefs délais, en bref
🔊 Il lui envoya un bref message de quelques lignes seulement.
brief, short
çekim: üstünlük brevísimo
eş: corto, corto
zıt: largo
köken: Borrowed from Latin brevis (“short”). Cognate with English brief and breve.
aile: brevedad, brevemente, en breve, la vida es breve, lo bueno, si breve, dos veces bueno
brief, short · narrow · short
çekim: üstünlük brevissimo
eş: conciso, di poche parole, laconico, limitato, schematico, sintetico
zıt: lungo, ampio, largo
köken: Borrowed from Latin brevis (“short”).
aile: a breve, tra breve, brevità, in breve
🔊 Il mese è breve.
fleeting, passing, transient
eş: скоротечный, быстротечный
köken: ми́мо (mímo) + лете́ть (letétʹ) + -ный (-nyj)
aile: мимолётно, мимолётность
brief, short · summarized · minute (very small)
çekim: çoğul breves
zıt: longo
köken: Probably a borrowing from Latin brevis (“short”) (compare Spanish breve, where *brieve would be expected if the term were inherited), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.
aile: até breve, em breve
to mention, present, announce · to cite, refer
çekim: geçmiş ανέφερα · ortaç έχοντας αναφέρει · şimdiki αναφέρει · ulaç αναφέροντας
köken: From Ancient Greek ἀναφέρω (anaphérō, “carry, propose”). By surface analysis, ανα- (“re-, again”) + φέρω (“bear, carry”).
ephemeral
çekim: karşılaştırma mer efemär · üstünlük mest efemär
ephemeral
eş: krótki, szybki, przelotny, krótkotrwały
köken: Adapted borrowing of German ephemerisch + -ny, from French éphémère. By surface analysis, efemeryda + -yczny.
ephemeral, transitory (lasting for a short period of time) · chimeric, unreal (imaginary)
köken: From French éphémère + -ний (-nyj), from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros, “during one day”). Compare Russian эфеме́рный (efemérnyj), Belarusian эфеме́рны (efjemjérny).
momentary, short-lived, transient
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit क्षणभङ्गुर (kṣaṇabhaṅgura). By surface analysis, क्षण (kṣaṇ, “moment”) + भंगुर (bhaṅgur, “transient”).
aile: क्षणभंगुरता
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momentary, brief, fleeting; transitory, transient · instantaneous (at an instant)
çekim: karşılaştırma hetkellisempi · üstünlük hetkellisin
köken: hetki + -llinen
aile: hetkellisesti, hetkellisyys, hetkellisarvo
temporary
çekim: karşılaştırma dočasnější · üstünlük nejdočasnější
eş: provizorní, přechodný
zıt: trvalý
köken: From do- + čas + -ný.
ephemeral · fugacious, fleeting, transient, transitory, volatile, temporary
köken: Borrowed from French éphémère.
temporary, interim, transient
köken: átmenet + -i (adjective-forming suffix)
aile: átmenetileg, átmenetiség
short, small, little, narrow · brief, short · short, low, shallow
çekim: karşılaştırma brevior · üstünlük brevissimus
eş: parvus, parvus
zıt: longus, altus
köken: From Proto-Italic *breɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus. Cognates include Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús), English merry, Sanskrit मुहु (muhu).
aile: amphibrevis, bibrevis, brevī, breviculus, brevigerulus, breviloquēns, breviloquium, breviloquus, breviō, brevitas
🔊 Sōlēs occidere et redīre possunt: nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx,
short · brief
çekim: karşılaştırma kortere · üstünlük kortest
köken: From Middle Low German kort, from Old Saxon *kurt, from Proto-West Germanic *kurt, cognate with German kurz, Dutch kort.
aile: kortbenet, korte, kortfilm, kortform, korthed, korthåret, kortklippet, kortlivet, kortrækkende, kortsigtet
Impermanent, ephemeral; existing only for a period or periods of time
çekim: karşılaştırma lebih fana · üstünlük paling fana
zıt: permanen, kekal, abadi, lestari
köken: From Malay fana, from Arabic فَنَاء (fanāʔ, “evanescence”). Doublet of fani.
short, brief · concise, succinct, curt
çekim: karşılaştırma по́-кра́тки · üstünlük на́й-кра́тки
köken: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic кратъкъ (kratŭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ.
short
çekim: karşılaştırma lühem · üstünlük kõige lühem
köken: From Proto-Finnic *lühüt + -ke.
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short · brief
çekim: çoğul breus
köken: Inherited from Latin brevem. Compare Occitan brèu.
aile: breument, en breu
brief
köken: From Latin brevis.
aile: brevemente