Borrowed fromNew Latinbrevium, derived fromClassical Latinbrevis(“short”), due to its short half-life.
brevio m (uncountable)
- (nuclear physics)brevium
- brevio in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
brevio
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofbreviare
Frombrevis(“short; brief”) +-ō.
breviō (present infinitivebreviāre,perfect activebreviāvī,supinebreviātum);first conjugation
- toshorten,abbreviate,abridge (especiallyspeech orwriting)
- “brevio”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- brevio inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.