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Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?

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Because it started with a fairly short word, brevio, Latin for "short". Then a prefix was added, ab-, to indicate "motion towards" (cognate to "at"). Then the suffix -ated was added to indicate the verb in the past participle form.

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