breve

breve is a Latin form of brevis, meaning “short, brief; small, narrow; (brevi) shortly, in a short time”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 152 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 1.31: … tas in nostri consulatus tempus erupit. nunc si ex tanto latrocinio iste unus tolletur, videbimur fortasse ad breve quoddam tempus cura et metu esse relevati, periculum autem residebit et erit inclusum penitus in venis atque …

Suetonius, Tiberius 51.2: … to habuit omnisque amicitias et familiaritates, etiam quibus ea funeris sui curam moriens demandauerat, intra breue tempus afflixit, uno ex iis, equestris ordinis uiro, et in antliam condemnato.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 8.14.10: Breve tempus - nam tanto brevius omne quanto felicius tempus - quo libet scire quid simus, libet exercere quod scim …

All forms of brevis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.