concise
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
- Brief, yet including all important information
- Synonyms: succinct, terse; see also Thesaurus:concise
- Antonym: verbose
- (obsolete) Physically short or truncated
- 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:
- This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]brief and precise
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Verb
[edit]concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)
- (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
French
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]concise
Italian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]concise
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈkiː.se/, [kɔŋˈkiːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.se/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːs̬e]
Participle
[edit]concīse
References
[edit]- “concise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- concise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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