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Where does “abrégé” come from?

abrégé (French) comes from French abréger, from Old French abregier, from Latin abbreviō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

abrégé (French): A summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work;...

Definitions

  1. A summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work;...

Ancestry of “abrégé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchabrégerto shorten in duration; to shorten or summarize,...
2Old Frenchabregier—
3Latinabbreviō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “abrégé”

  • abrégément
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