English → Latin
“shortly” in Latin
brevisshort, small, little, narrow; brief, short; short, low, shallowarsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemangustusnarrow, close, contracted, constricted, confined, small, not spacious; narrow, strait; short, briefpaucīfew, small group of people; the oligarchsstrictimsuperficially; briefly, cursorily, summarilycarptimby pieces, in parts, piecemeal, separately; at different places or points, on different sides; at different times, from praecīsusshortened, severed; battered, smashedpremōto press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm; to tighten, compress, shorten, press closely, squeeze; to make,pressēprecisely; accurately, exactly, correctly; without ornament, simply (of speech)negōto deny; to refuse, say no; to reject, refuse, say no to (something), turn down
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
shortly
Briefly, not at length, breviter (general term): arte: anguste (narrowly): paucis (sc. verbis), breviter (with few words): strictim: carptim (superficially; opposed to copiose). (The words are found in this connection and order.) breviter strictimque; praecise (abruptly, with few words; opposed to plane et perfecte; then also, roundly, flatly; e.g., negare): presse or pressius (briefly, but thoroughly; e.g., definire).
Soon, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for shortly?
- The usual Latin words for “shortly” are brevis, ars, angustus; also paucī, strictim, carptim. 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.