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English

Alternative forms

• brivit

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?v??t, IPA^(key): /?b??v?t/

Verb

brivet (third-person singular simple present brivets, present participle briveting or brivetting, simple past and past participle briveted or brivetted)

1. (intransitive, Britain, West Midlands) To wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner.

   Once Melanie had left the house, I entered her bedroom and began to brivet around.

Usage notes

• Particularly prevalent in the regional dialect of the West Midlands of England, and the Welsh border area.
• Most often applied to a child's behaviour or that of pets and other animals.
• Also used in the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border area in the context of jumble sales, Women's Institutes or Church 'sales of work'

References

• Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years; Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never Before Printed,^[1] Oxford University Press (1970), page 398:

  Brivet, a word often applied to children when they wander about aimlessly and turn over things.

• Notes and Queries,^[2] Oxford University Press (1899), page 329:

  “Briveting.”—A friend of mine, a native of Oxford, in the course of conversation remarked, in reference to something for which he had been searching, that he had been “briveting” about London. Never having heard of the term before, and not […]

• Collections historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire,^[3], the Powys-land Club (1874), page 122:

  Brivit, to ferret after or search for a thing. A person told me that a certain discovery was made whilst a drawer was being brivited; ie, whilst its contents were being thoroughly inspected.

• Horace Harman, Buckinghamshire dialect,^[4] S. R. Publishers (1970), ?ISBN, page 141:

  BRIVIT — To fidget. Records of Bucks (VII, 288) gives the meaning as "to rummage," quoting its use at Winslow.

• Bye-gones, relating to Wales and the Border Counties, ^[5] (1907), page 54:

  A Shrewsbury clergyman lately heard the following in his parish: — 'Somebody's been "briviting" in my drawers. I do not know where anything is.'

English

Etymology

Inherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???v?t/, /?b??v.?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??v.?t/

Noun

brevet (plural brevets)

1. A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
2. A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
   1. (by extension) An authoritative grant or mark of recognition; a seal of approval.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:brevet.
3. An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.

Translations

Verb

brevet (third-person singular simple present brevets, present participle breveting or brevetting, simple past and past participle breveted or brevetted)

1. (military) To promote by brevet.

Translations

Further reading

• brevet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

brevet n

1. definite singular of brev

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brevete, from Middle French brevet. The sense “papal brief” comes from Latin brevetum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??v?t/, /br??ve?/
• Hyphenation: bre?vet
• Rhymes: -?t, -e?

Noun

brevet n (plural brevetten or brevets)

1. A formal document, such as a certificate or licence.
2. A permit or licence allowing one to use certain vehicles or engage in certain activities, now especially in relation to aicraft, diving, swimming (in Belgium) and sometimes mopeds.

   Synonym: bewijs

3. A papal brief.

Derived terms

• duikbrevet
• vliegbrevet
• zwembrevet

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: brevet

French

Etymology

From brève +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.v?/

Noun

brevet m (plural brevets)

1. (law) a patent
2. a teaching license or certificate

Related terms

• breveter

Further reading

• “brevet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch brevet, from Middle Dutch brevete, from Middle French brevet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?v?t]
• Hyphenation: brè?vèt

Noun

brevet or brèvèt

1. A formal document, such as a certificate or licence.
2. A permit or licence allowing one to use certain vehicles or engage in certain activities, now especially in relation to aircraft.

Synonyms

Further reading

• “brevet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

brevet n

1. definite singular of brev

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

brevet n

1. definite singular of brev

Romanian

Etymology

From French brevet

Noun

brevet n (plural brevete)

1. patent
2. warrant

Declension

Swedish

Noun

brevet

1. definite singular of brev

Anagrams

• verbet