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“abridgment” in Latin
epitomēepitome; abridgement; synopsissummāriumsummary; epitome; abstractēligōto choose, to pluck or root out, extract; to pick out, choose, electimminūtiōlessening, weakening, impairing, injuring; defloweringdēminūtiōdiminution, decrease, lessening, abatement; a diminutive formbreviāriumbrief; report (short piece of writing)taxōto feel, to touch sharply, to handle; to charge, to twit, to reproach, to censure; to rate, to appraise, to value, to es
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
abridgment
of a book, epitome: summarium (about Sen.’s time, breviarium, Ep., 39, 1): electa (selections): excerpta (extracts). To publish an abridgment in six volumes of the whole of Dionysius’s voluminous work, totum Dionysium, per multa diffusum volumina, sex epitomis circumscribere (Col.).
A lessening, imminutio (e.g. dignitatis, Cic.): deminutio (a lessening by subtraction, of liberty, taxes, etc).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for abridgment?
- The usual Latin words for “abridgment” are epitomē, summārium, ēligō; also imminūtiō, dēminūtiō, breviārium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.