short
short
adj.
P. and V. βρᾰχύ̆ς.
At so short a distance: P. διὰ τοσούτου.
Concise: P. and V. σύντομος, βρᾰχύς.
Little (in amount, time, etc.): P. and V. βρᾰχύ̆ς, ὀλί̆γος, μικρός, σμικρός, Ar. and V. βαιός.
Of stature: P. and V. μικρός, σμικρός.
Deficient: P. and V. ἐνδεής, P. ἐλλιπής.
Short of, deficient in: P. and V. ἐνδεής (gen.); see deficient.
Except: P. and V. πλήν (gen.).
Less than: with numerals use participle, P. δέων (gen.).
Come short, v.: P. ἐλασσοῦσθαι; see also lack.Come short of.
Be deficient in: P. and V. ἐλλείπειν (gen.), ἀ̆πολείπεσθαι (gen.), V. λείπεσθαι (gen.).
Fall short, give out: P. and V. ἐκλείπειν, ἐλλείπειν, V. λείπειν, Ar. and P. ἐπῐλείπειν.
Fall short of, be inferior to: P. ἐλλείπειν (gen.), ὑστερίζειν (gen.), ὑστερεῖν (gen.), P. and V. ἡσσᾶσθαι (gen.), λείπεσθαι (gen.) (rare P.).
They reflected how far they had fallen short of their covenant: P. ἐσκόπουν ὅσα ἐξελελοίπεσαν τῆς συνθήκης (Thuc. 5.42).
If you persist in sitting idle, letting your zeal stop short at murmuring and commending: P. εἰ καθεδεῖσθε ἄχρι τοῦ θορυβῆσαι καὶ ἐπαινέσαι σπουδάζοντες (Dem. 109).
At short notice P. and V. φαύλως ; see off-hand.
In short: see shortly.
To sum up: P. ὅλως, P. and V. ἁπλῶς.
Cut short, abridge, v.: P. and V. συντέμνειν.
To cut a long story short: P. ἵνα, ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν, συντέμω.
Cut short, shorten: P. and V. συντέμνειν, συστέλλειν, κολούειν.
Cut short (a person), make to stop: P. and V. παύειν ; see also interrupt.
Short (of temper): P. and V. ὀξύς ; see quick.
Short of breath: V. δύσπνους.
Short comings, subs.: P. ἐλλείματα, τά.
You will make up for your past short comings: P. τὰ κατερρᾳθυμημένα πάλιν ἀναλήψεσθε (Dem. 42).
Short cut: P. ἡ σύντομος (Xen.).
By the shortest cut: P. τὰ συντομώτατα (Thuc. 2.97).
adj.
P. and V. βρᾰχύ̆ς.
At so short a distance: P. διὰ τοσούτου.
Concise: P. and V. σύντομος, βρᾰχύς.
Little (in amount, time, etc.): P. and V. βρᾰχύ̆ς, ὀλί̆γος, μικρός, σμικρός, Ar. and V. βαιός.
Of stature: P. and V. μικρός, σμικρός.
Deficient: P. and V. ἐνδεής, P. ἐλλιπής.
Short of, deficient in: P. and V. ἐνδεής (gen.); see deficient.
Except: P. and V. πλήν (gen.).
Less than: with numerals use participle, P. δέων (gen.).
Come short, v.: P. ἐλασσοῦσθαι; see also lack.Come short of.
Be deficient in: P. and V. ἐλλείπειν (gen.), ἀ̆πολείπεσθαι (gen.), V. λείπεσθαι (gen.).
Fall short, give out: P. and V. ἐκλείπειν, ἐλλείπειν, V. λείπειν, Ar. and P. ἐπῐλείπειν.
Fall short of, be inferior to: P. ἐλλείπειν (gen.), ὑστερίζειν (gen.), ὑστερεῖν (gen.), P. and V. ἡσσᾶσθαι (gen.), λείπεσθαι (gen.) (rare P.).
They reflected how far they had fallen short of their covenant: P. ἐσκόπουν ὅσα ἐξελελοίπεσαν τῆς συνθήκης (Thuc. 5.42).
If you persist in sitting idle, letting your zeal stop short at murmuring and commending: P. εἰ καθεδεῖσθε ἄχρι τοῦ θορυβῆσαι καὶ ἐπαινέσαι σπουδάζοντες (Dem. 109).
At short notice P. and V. φαύλως ; see off-hand.
In short: see shortly.
To sum up: P. ὅλως, P. and V. ἁπλῶς.
Cut short, abridge, v.: P. and V. συντέμνειν.
To cut a long story short: P. ἵνα, ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν, συντέμω.
Cut short, shorten: P. and V. συντέμνειν, συστέλλειν, κολούειν.
Cut short (a person), make to stop: P. and V. παύειν ; see also interrupt.
Short (of temper): P. and V. ὀξύς ; see quick.
Short of breath: V. δύσπνους.
Short comings, subs.: P. ἐλλείματα, τά.
You will make up for your past short comings: P. τὰ κατερρᾳθυμημένα πάλιν ἀναλήψεσθε (Dem. 42).
Short cut: P. ἡ σύντομος (Xen.).
By the shortest cut: P. τὰ συντομώτατα (Thuc. 2.97).
SHORT
Of small extent in space brevis (general term; opposed to longus latus): curtus (cut short; too short): contractus (narrowed limited in extent): astrictus (drawn tight; short in breadth or width). (The words are found in this connection and order.) contractus et astrictus: artus: angustus (tight narrow): minutus (made very small): praecisus (broken off abrupt; e.g. conclusiones): pressus (compact). Very short perbrevis; brevissimus: short of stature statura brevis; brevis; brevi corpore: a short way via brevis or compendiaria; viae compendium (post-Augustan): short hair capilli breves (opposed to capilli longi): capilli tonsi (cut. Juv. 9 149): short sight oculi non longe conspectum ferentes: to have short sight oculis non satis prospicere: to be short (in speaking or writing) breviter or paucis or praecise dicere (opposed to copiose plene et perfecte dicere); brevi praecidere; paucis or breviter scribere or perscribere: to be short (in narrative or description) breviter exponere or paucis absolvere aliquid; in pauca conferre aliquid; breviter astringere aliquid (e.g. argumenta): be short in pauca confer; verbo dicas; praecide; id si potes verbo expedi: I will be as short as I can in verba conferam paucissima: in short to be short ut in pauca conferam; ne longum faciam; ne longus sim; ut ad pauca redeam; ut paucis dicam; ne (multis) te morer; de quo ne multa disseram; ne multa; ne plura; quid multa? quid plura? quid quaeris? ad summam; denique (denique especially when a conclusion is added to a series of enumerations); uno verbo (in one word; ☞ only when no more than one word follows; Vid: Cat. R.R. 157 5; Cic. Phil. 2 22 54). Also que (affixed) is used to express “short” (in order to resume; Vid: commentators on Caes. B.G. 2 3; ad Cic. Catil. 3 8 28; ad Cic. De Legg. 1 18 48 and 2 7 16). Short and sweet paucis quidem sed bene.
Of brief extent in time brevis exiguus (unimportant inconsiderable): contractus (contracted shortened; e.g. noctes). The shortest day dies brumalis (opposed to dies solstitialis); bruma (the winter solstice; opposed to solstitium): the shortest night nox solstitialis (opposed to nox brumalis in Ov. Pont. 2 4 26); solstitium (the summer solstice; opposed to bruma. ☞ The writers of the best age and even Sen. N. Qu. 7 1 3 use solstitium only in this sense; and hence it is unclassical to say solstitium brumale or hibernum for bruma or solstitium aestivum for solstitium alone; Vid: Ruhnken Ter. Phorm. 4 4 28; Ochsn. Cic. Ecl. p. 284). A short syllable syllaba brevis: to mark a syllable as short syllabam corripere (opposed to producere): to pronounce short breviter dicere syllabam: in inclitus the first letter [syllable] is short inclitus dicimus [dicitur] brevi prima littera): a short memory memoria hebes: in a short time brevi tempore; brevi spatio or more commonly brevi celeriter (quickly): in a very short time perbrevi: a short time before brevi ante paullo ante proxime; modo (just now not long since); nuper (lately but of a point of time more or less remote; Vid: Cic. Verr. 4 3 6 quid dico nuper? immo vero modo ac plane paullo ante. ☞ Recens for modo or nuper is not classical): a short time after brevi post or postea; paullo post or post paullo (Vid: commentators on Liv. 22 60 16); non ita multo post; brevi spatio interjecto: a short time before (a person’s death etc.) haud multum ante (mortem alicujus): a short time after (a person’s death etc.) haud multum post (mortem alicujus): a short time before day paullo ante lucem; plane mane (early in the morning): to cut short a conversation sermonem incidere (☞ sermonem abrumpere belongs to the Silver Age and the poets): to cut short an acquaintance friendship etc. societatem amicitiam dirumpere discindere; amicitiam repente praecidere (opposed to sensim dissuere): to be short with anybody aliquem severius adhibere (Cic. Att. 10 12 3).
Of small extent in space brevis (general term; opposed to longus latus): curtus (cut short; too short): contractus (narrowed limited in extent): astrictus (drawn tight; short in breadth or width). (The words are found in this connection and order.) contractus et astrictus: artus: angustus (tight narrow): minutus (made very small): praecisus (broken off abrupt; e.g. conclusiones): pressus (compact). Very short perbrevis; brevissimus: short of stature statura brevis; brevis; brevi corpore: a short way via brevis or compendiaria; viae compendium (post-Augustan): short hair capilli breves (opposed to capilli longi): capilli tonsi (cut. Juv. 9 149): short sight oculi non longe conspectum ferentes: to have short sight oculis non satis prospicere: to be short (in speaking or writing) breviter or paucis or praecise dicere (opposed to copiose plene et perfecte dicere); brevi praecidere; paucis or breviter scribere or perscribere: to be short (in narrative or description) breviter exponere or paucis absolvere aliquid; in pauca conferre aliquid; breviter astringere aliquid (e.g. argumenta): be short in pauca confer; verbo dicas; praecide; id si potes verbo expedi: I will be as short as I can in verba conferam paucissima: in short to be short ut in pauca conferam; ne longum faciam; ne longus sim; ut ad pauca redeam; ut paucis dicam; ne (multis) te morer; de quo ne multa disseram; ne multa; ne plura; quid multa? quid plura? quid quaeris? ad summam; denique (denique especially when a conclusion is added to a series of enumerations); uno verbo (in one word; ☞ only when no more than one word follows; Vid: Cat. R.R. 157 5; Cic. Phil. 2 22 54). Also que (affixed) is used to express “short” (in order to resume; Vid: commentators on Caes. B.G. 2 3; ad Cic. Catil. 3 8 28; ad Cic. De Legg. 1 18 48 and 2 7 16). Short and sweet paucis quidem sed bene.
Of brief extent in time brevis exiguus (unimportant inconsiderable): contractus (contracted shortened; e.g. noctes). The shortest day dies brumalis (opposed to dies solstitialis); bruma (the winter solstice; opposed to solstitium): the shortest night nox solstitialis (opposed to nox brumalis in Ov. Pont. 2 4 26); solstitium (the summer solstice; opposed to bruma. ☞ The writers of the best age and even Sen. N. Qu. 7 1 3 use solstitium only in this sense; and hence it is unclassical to say solstitium brumale or hibernum for bruma or solstitium aestivum for solstitium alone; Vid: Ruhnken Ter. Phorm. 4 4 28; Ochsn. Cic. Ecl. p. 284). A short syllable syllaba brevis: to mark a syllable as short syllabam corripere (opposed to producere): to pronounce short breviter dicere syllabam: in inclitus the first letter [syllable] is short inclitus dicimus [dicitur] brevi prima littera): a short memory memoria hebes: in a short time brevi tempore; brevi spatio or more commonly brevi celeriter (quickly): in a very short time perbrevi: a short time before brevi ante paullo ante proxime; modo (just now not long since); nuper (lately but of a point of time more or less remote; Vid: Cic. Verr. 4 3 6 quid dico nuper? immo vero modo ac plane paullo ante. ☞ Recens for modo or nuper is not classical): a short time after brevi post or postea; paullo post or post paullo (Vid: commentators on Liv. 22 60 16); non ita multo post; brevi spatio interjecto: a short time before (a person’s death etc.) haud multum ante (mortem alicujus): a short time after (a person’s death etc.) haud multum post (mortem alicujus): a short time before day paullo ante lucem; plane mane (early in the morning): to cut short a conversation sermonem incidere (☞ sermonem abrumpere belongs to the Silver Age and the poets): to cut short an acquaintance friendship etc. societatem amicitiam dirumpere discindere; amicitiam repente praecidere (opposed to sensim dissuere): to be short with anybody aliquem severius adhibere (Cic. Att. 10 12 3).
short (adj.): Not long, not of great extent or duration:
1. brĕvis, e (most usu. term): there were two ways, the shorter of which, etc., duae erant viae, quarum brevior, etc., Nep. Eum. 8: the judge was himself (of) shorter (stature) than the witness, judex ipse brevior quam testis erat, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245: a shorter day, dies brevior, Pl. Am. 1, 3, 51: a s. story, b. narratio, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28: in gram.: of the quantity of syllables: a long syllable coming next to a s. one is called an iambus, syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus, Hor. A. P. 251: Cic. Comp.: perbrĕvis (very short): in a very s. time, p. tempore, Cic. Verr. 3, 9, 22. In tmesi: altera pars per mihi brevis videtur, id. Cluent. 1, 2. Dimin.: brĕvĭcŭlus (shortish: rare): a s. man, b. homo, Pl. Merc. 3, 4, 54: Apul.
2. exĭguus (denoting insufficiency, scantiness of time): s. time, tempus e., Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 92: a s. part of summer, e. pars aestatis, Caes. B. G. 4, 20, init.
3. compendiārius (of a way, a short cut): the nearest road, and as if it were a s. cut to glory, via ad gloriam proxima et quasi c., Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43. Also as subs., compendiāria (a short way): Petr. S. 2, 9: and adv., compendiāriā and compendiario (by a short cut): I will bring you by a s. way to very great wealth, ad maximas te divitias compendiaria ducam, Sen. Ep. 119, 1: cf. ib. 73, 11 (te in coelum compendiario voco). Phr.: the s. cuts of the mountain, montis compendia, Ov. M. 3, 234: to go by s. cuts, compendiis ire, Tac. A. 12, 28: to run s., ad angustias decidere, Suet. Cl. 9 (v.STRAITS ): to cut s. (i. e. to abridge), in angustum cogere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2: cf. Cic. Rab. perd. 2, 6, in semihorae curriculum cogere (to cut short in the way of time): to fall s. of, non pervenire ad..., non contingere (v. TO FALL SHORT ; also, TO REACH ): in s. (= to be brief, to sum up), denique (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. No. III.).
1. brĕvis, e (most usu. term): there were two ways, the shorter of which, etc., duae erant viae, quarum brevior, etc., Nep. Eum. 8: the judge was himself (of) shorter (stature) than the witness, judex ipse brevior quam testis erat, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245: a shorter day, dies brevior, Pl. Am. 1, 3, 51: a s. story, b. narratio, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28: in gram.: of the quantity of syllables: a long syllable coming next to a s. one is called an iambus, syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus, Hor. A. P. 251: Cic. Comp.: perbrĕvis (very short): in a very s. time, p. tempore, Cic. Verr. 3, 9, 22. In tmesi: altera pars per mihi brevis videtur, id. Cluent. 1, 2. Dimin.: brĕvĭcŭlus (shortish: rare): a s. man, b. homo, Pl. Merc. 3, 4, 54: Apul.
2. exĭguus (denoting insufficiency, scantiness of time): s. time, tempus e., Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 92: a s. part of summer, e. pars aestatis, Caes. B. G. 4, 20, init.
3. compendiārius (of a way, a short cut): the nearest road, and as if it were a s. cut to glory, via ad gloriam proxima et quasi c., Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43. Also as subs., compendiāria (a short way): Petr. S. 2, 9: and adv., compendiāriā and compendiario (by a short cut): I will bring you by a s. way to very great wealth, ad maximas te divitias compendiaria ducam, Sen. Ep. 119, 1: cf. ib. 73, 11 (te in coelum compendiario voco). Phr.: the s. cuts of the mountain, montis compendia, Ov. M. 3, 234: to go by s. cuts, compendiis ire, Tac. A. 12, 28: to run s., ad angustias decidere, Suet. Cl. 9 (v.
μικρός
μῑκρός, μῑκρά, μῑκρόν, small, little, short
βραχύς
βραχύς, short; small
συλλήβδην
collectively, in sum, in short
short in weight
βραχυσώματος
short of body
βραχύλογος
short in speech, of few words
βραχύμετρος
short in measurement
βραχύπνοος
short of breath
δυσπνοϊκός
short of breath
κολοβιομαφόριον
short
κοντός2
short
κόλουσις
a docking, cutting short
μικροφυής
of low growth, short
πεδανός
low-growing, short
πυγόριζα
short, stumpy root
συγκοπή
a cutting short
συντέμνω
to cut in pieces: to cut down, cut short
ἀκαρής
too short to be cut, very short
ἀμφίβραχυς
short at both ends:
ἀνακρούω
to push back, stop short, check
ἐλαχύς
small, short, little
ἔκδεια
a falling short, being in arrear
σμικρός
σμικρός ά όν, small, short, little (adjective)
μῑκρός, μῑκρά, μῑκρόν, small, little, short
βραχύς
βραχύς, short; small
συλλήβδην
collectively, in sum, in short
appearing fewer than 50 times
βραχυρρεπήςshort in weight
βραχυσώματος
short of body
βραχύλογος
short in speech, of few words
βραχύμετρος
short in measurement
βραχύπνοος
short of breath
δυσπνοϊκός
short of breath
κολοβιομαφόριον
short
κοντός2
short
κόλουσις
a docking, cutting short
μικροφυής
of low growth, short
πεδανός
low-growing, short
πυγόριζα
short, stumpy root
συγκοπή
a cutting short
συντέμνω
to cut in pieces: to cut down, cut short
ἀκαρής
too short to be cut, very short
ἀμφίβραχυς
short at both ends:
ἀνακρούω
to push back, stop short, check
ἐλαχύς
small, short, little
ἔκδεια
a falling short, being in arrear
σμικρός
σμικρός ά όν, small, short, little (adjective)
brevis
short
exiguus
strict, exact, scanty, small, little, petty, short, poor, mean, inadequate, inconsiderable,...
artus
close, strait, narrow, confined, short
delinquo
to fail, be wanting, fall short, trespass, err, commit a fault, do wrong, transgress, offend
anhelus
out of breath, short of breath, panting, puffing, gasping
curtus
shortened, mutilated, broken, short
to scrape, cut short, shave
compendiarius
short, easy
concisus
abrupt, short, concise
contractus
drawn together, compressed, contracted, short, narrow, restricted, limited
copis
a short, curved sword, yataghan
mutilo
to cut off, lop off, cut short, clip, crop, maim, mutilate
short
exiguus
strict, exact, scanty, small, little, petty, short, poor, mean, inadequate, inconsiderable,...
artus
close, strait, narrow, confined, short
delinquo
to fail, be wanting, fall short, trespass, err, commit a fault, do wrong, transgress, offend
anhelus
out of breath, short of breath, panting, puffing, gasping
curtus
shortened, mutilated, broken, short
appearing fewer than 50 times
adradoto scrape, cut short, shave
compendiarius
short, easy
concisus
abrupt, short, concise
contractus
drawn together, compressed, contracted, short, narrow, restricted, limited
copis
a short, curved sword, yataghan
mutilo
to cut off, lop off, cut short, clip, crop, maim, mutilate