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brachiologia

brachiologia noun: brevity in speech.

Noun

brachiologia (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) brevity in speech.
    • I have modified Irwin's presentation (with each speech on a separate line), following rather the way that Dodds presents the Greek, to give a better sense of the rapidity of brachyologia.2009, Daniel Boyarin, Socrates & the fat rabbis, page 105

Synonyms of brachiologia

Origin of brachiologia

From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). Compare brachylogy.

Questions about brachiologia

What does brachiologia mean?
Brachiologia means brevity in speech.
What part of speech is brachiologia?
Brachiologia is a noun.

Words near brachiologia in the dictionary

  1. brachiolaria
  2. brachiolarian
  3. brachiolarias
  4. brachiole
  5. brachioles
  6. brachiologia
  7. brachiomanual
  8. brachionichthyid
  9. brachionichthyids
  10. brachionid
  11. brachionids

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