concise
English
Etymology
From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈsaɪs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪs
Adjective
concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
- Brief, yet including all important information
- Synonyms: succinct, terse; see also Thesaurus:concise
- Antonym: verbose
- (obsolete) Physically short or truncated
- 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:
- This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
Derived terms
Translations
brief and precise
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.ze/
- Rhymes: -ize
- Hyphenation: con‧cì‧se
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈkiː.se/, [kɔŋˈkiːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.se/, [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːs̬e]
References
- “concise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- concise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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