different between concise vs lapidary

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

Etymology

From Old French lapidaire, from Latin lapid?rius (“of stones”) (later used as a noun ‘stone-cutter’), from lapis (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læp?d??i/

Noun

lapidary (plural lapidaries)

1. A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
   • 2013, Peter G. Read,Gemmology, Elsevier, p.289

     In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.

2. An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
3. (archaic) A treatise on precious stones.

Derived terms

• lapidarian
• lapidary's lathe
• lapidary's mill
• lapidary's wheel

Adjective

lapidary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
2. Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
   • 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Knopf/HarperCollins, p. 71

     The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct.