Where does “brevă” come from?

brevă (Romanian) comes from Italian breve, from Medieval Latin breve, from Latin brevis, from Proto-Italic *breɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European mréǵʰus, from Proto-Indo-European mreǵʰ- — short.

brevă (Romanian): an official papal document, less solemn than a bull

Definitions

  1. an official papal document, less solemn than a bull

Ancestry of “brevă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbrevebrief, short; narrow; short
2Medieval Latinbreve—
3Latinbrevisshort, small, little, narrow; brief, short;...
4Proto-Italic*breɣʷis—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmréǵʰusshort; brief
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmreǵʰ-short
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mreǵʰ- →