different between concise vs brachylogy

English

Etymology

From Late Latin concisus (“cut short”), from concidere (“cut to pieces”), from caedere (“to cut, to strike down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Adjective

concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)

1. brief, yet including all important information

Synonyms

• succinct
• terse
• See also Thesaurus:concise

Antonyms

• verbose

Derived terms

• concisely
• concision
• conciseness

Translations

Verb

concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)

1. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

French

Adjective

concise

1. feminine singular of concis

Italian

Adjective

concise

1. feminine plural of conciso

Anagrams

• conscie
• scenico
• sconcie

Latin

Participle

conc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of conc?sus

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

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From brachy- +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (brakhulogía), from ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

Noun

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

See also

• ellipsis