brevier

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brevier

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Where it comes from

Probably from Old French or Anglo-Norman *brevier, from Latin breviārium (“breviary”), presumably from its use in printing them, hence a doublet of breviary and brimborion. Most breviaries were not, however, printed with such small type, leading some to conjecture that it instead derived from cognates of brief and has a meaning similar to French petit and German Petit.

noun

dated, uncountable The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
Similar: small text, petit

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noun noun

Español	breviario
Français	gaillarde, petit-texte
Deutsch	Petit, Jungfer, Jungfrawschrift
Italiano	testino

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@misc{brevier_2026,
  title = {brevier},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brevier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}