breves

breves is a Latin form of brevis, meaning “short, brief; small, narrow; (brevi) shortly, in a short time”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural feminine adjective or nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.1.3: … ugit, nona in contione quo die Allobroges indicarunt, decima in senatu Nonis Decembribus. sunt praeterea duae breves, quasi legis agrariae. hoc totum curabo ut habeas; et quoniam te cum scripta tum res meae delectant, isdem ex …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 72.1: … ed nihilo minus aedibus modicis Hortensianis, et neque laxitate neque cultu conspicuis, ut in quibus porticus breues essent Albanarum columnarum et sine marmore ullo aut insigni pauimento conclauia. ac per annos amplius quadra …

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.