An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.(noun)
An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.(noun)
Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Use "abbreviature" in a sentence
"This letter is the initial of the word _Jehovah_, or _Ihoh_, as I have already stated, and is constantly to be met with in Hebrew writings as the symbol or abbreviature of"
""Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane" (Milan, 1899)."
"A very useful work for all Latin abbreviations is that of CAPELLI, Dizionario delle abbreviature latine ed italiane (Milan,"