verb/a.bʁe.ʒe/
to shorten in duration; to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge; to abbreviate
“Les principales façon d'abréger les mots étaient connus dans le monde latin […]” — The main ways of abbreviating words were known in the Latin world […]
Inherited from Old French abregier, itself from Late Latin abbreviāre. Doublet of abrévier, a (now obsolete) borrowing. See also abréviation.