Why is ‘abbreviation’ such a long word?
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“Ab” was added to “breviare” to make it “abbreviare”, a verb meaning “to shorten”; then it got converted to a noun by adding “-ionem” at the end becoming “abbreviationem” which...
means “something that has been shortened”. Then the “em” was removed and voila!
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