laconic

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ləˈkɒnɪk/
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• General-American: /ləˈkɑnɪk/
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• rhymes with -ɒnɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: L AA0 K AA1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), from Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós, “Laconian”). Laconia was the region inhabited and ruled by the Spartans, who were known for their brevity in speech.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وجيز — using as few words as possible
• Belarusian: лаканічны (lakaničny) — using as few words as possible
• Bulgarian: лаконичен (lakoničen) — using as few words as possible
• Catalan: lacònic — using as few words as possible
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡潔 /简洁 (jiǎnjié) — using as few words as possible
• Czech: lakonický — using as few words as possible
• Danish: lakonisk — using as few words as possible
• Danish: kortfattet — using as few words as possible
• Dutch: laconiek — using as few words as possible
• Estonian: lakooniline — using as few words as possible
• Finnish: lakoninen — using as few words as possible
• Finnish: lyhytsanainen — using as few words as possible
• Finnish: niukkasanainen — using as few words as possible
• French: laconique — using as few words as possible
• German: lakonisch — using as few words as possible
• German: wortkarg — using as few words as possible
• Greek: λακωνικός (lakonikós) — using as few words as possible
• Haitian Creole: lakonik — using as few words as possible
• Hebrew: לקוני (lakoni) — using as few words as possible
• Hungarian: lakonikus — using as few words as possible
• Hungarian: szűkszavú — using as few words as possible
• Hungarian: szófukar — using as few words as possible
• Irish: gearr-abartha — using as few words as possible
• Italian: laconico — using as few words as possible
• Japanese: 簡潔 (kanketsu) — using as few words as possible
• Macedonian: ла́конски (lákonski) — using as few words as possible
• Malay: ringkas — using as few words as possible
• Norwegian Bokmål: lakonisk — using as few words as possible
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lakonisk — using as few words as possible
• Polish: lakoniczny — using as few words as possible
• Portuguese: lacónico — using as few words as possible
• Portuguese: lacônico — using as few words as possible
• Romanian: laconic — using as few words as possible
• Russian: лакони́чный (lakoníčnyj) — using as few words as possible
• Russian: немногосло́вный (nemnogoslóvnyj) — using as few words as possible
• Serbo-Croatian: làkōnskī — using as few words as possible
• Serbo-Croatian: lakòničan — using as few words as possible
• Spanish: lacónico — using as few words as possible
• Swedish: lakonisk — using as few words as possible
• Thai: สั้น (sân) — using as few words as possible
• Thai: กระชับ (grà-cháp) — using as few words as possible
• Thai: รวบรัด — using as few words as possible
• Thai: กะทัดรัด (gà-tát-rát) — using as few words as possible
• Thai: สั้นได้ใจความ (sân-dâai-jai-kwaam) — using as few words as possible
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) — using as few words as possible
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) — using as few words as possible
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཉུང (kha nyung) — using as few words as possible
• Turkish: veciz — using as few words as possible
• Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz) — using as few words as possible
• Ukrainian: лаконічний (lakoničnyj) — using as few words as possible
• Welsh: byreiriog — using as few words as possible
• Welsh: laconig — using as few words as possible