βραχύτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s, “short”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bra.kʰý.tɛːs/ → /βraˈçy.tis/ → /vraˈçi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bra.kʰý.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /braˈkʰy.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βraˈçy.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vraˈçy.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vraˈçi.tis/

Noun

βρᾰχῠ́της • (brăkhŭ́tēs) f (genitive βρᾰχῠ́τητος); third declension

1. shortness
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 283c
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138
   1. narrowness, deficiency
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.42
2. smallness
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 2.354a.18
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3. (prosody) shortness of a syllable
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 400c
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1456b.32
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.947e
   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.100
4. scantiness
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 62.59
5. shallowness
   • Scyl. 112
6. (rhetoric) use of a condensed or allusive expression
   • Trypho, Trop. 202S

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βρᾰχῠ́της; τῆς βρᾰχῠ́τητος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βρᾰχῠ́της hē brăkhŭ́tēs	τὼ βρᾰχῠ́τητε tṑ brăkhŭ́tēte	αἱ βρᾰχῠ́τητες hai brăkhŭ́tētes
Genitive	τῆς βρᾰχῠ́τητος tês brăkhŭ́tētos	τοῖν βρᾰχῠτήτοιν toîn brăkhŭtḗtoin	τῶν βρᾰχῠτήτων tôn brăkhŭtḗtōn
Dative	τῇ βρᾰχῠ́τητῐ têi brăkhŭ́tētĭ	τοῖν βρᾰχῠτήτοιν toîn brăkhŭtḗtoin	ταῖς βρᾰχῠ́τησῐ / βρᾰχῠ́τησῐν taîs brăkhŭ́tēsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν βρᾰχῠ́τητᾰ tḕn brăkhŭ́tētă	τὼ βρᾰχῠ́τητε tṑ brăkhŭ́tēte	τᾱ̀ς βρᾰχῠ́τητᾰς tā̀s brăkhŭ́tētăs
Vocative	βρᾰχῠ́της brăkhŭ́tēs	βρᾰχῠ́τητε brăkhŭ́tēte	βρᾰχῠ́τητες brăkhŭ́tētes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “shortness”): μῆκος (mêkos)

References

• “βραχύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βραχύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βραχύτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βραχύτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brevity idem, page 97.
  • briefness idem, page 98.
  • insignificance idem, page 445.
  • shortness idem, page 769.