succinct

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• Received-Pronunciation: /səkˈsɪŋ(k)t/
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• General-American: /sə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)t/
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• rhymes with -ɪŋkt
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH0 K S IH1 NG K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The adjective is derived from Late Middle English succinte, succynt (“having one’s waist encircled with something, girdled; brief, concise, succinct”), borrowed from Old French succinct (modern French succinct), or directly from its etymon Latin succīnctus (“belted, girdled; enclosed or tightly wrapped; (figurative) concise, succinct; etc.”), the perfect passive participle of succingō (“to gather or tuck up with a belt, etc.”), from suc- (a variant of sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upó (“from below; up”)) + cingō (“to encircle, surround; to gird”) (further etymology uncertain). The adverb is derived from the adjective.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: sidottu — encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly
• Finnish: vyötetty — encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly
• Latin: succīnctus — encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly
• Finnish: vyö- (vyökotelo) — of some pupae: encircled by a thread of silk around the centre
• Bulgarian: компактен (kompakten) — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Czech: zhuštěný — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Dutch: compact — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Finnish: tiivis — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• German: kompakt — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Russian: сжа́тый (sžátyj) — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Turkish: sıkı — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Turkish: yoğun — compressed into a small area — see also compact
• Armenian: սեղմ (seġm) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Bulgarian: кратък (kratǎk) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Bulgarian: сбит (sbit) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Catalan: succint — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡潔的 /简洁的 (jiǎnjié de) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡明的 /简明的 (jiǎnmíng de) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Czech: stručný — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Danish: fyndig — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Danish: koncis — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Dutch: bondig — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Finnish: ytimekäs — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• French: succinct — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• German: bündig — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• German: knapp — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• German: kurz — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• German: lapidar — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• German: prägnant — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Greek: λακωνικός (lakonikós) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Greek: συνοπτικός (synoptikós) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Hungarian: tömör — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Hungarian: velős — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Japanese: 簡潔な (kanketsu na) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Kazakh: қысқаша (qysqaşa) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Latin: succīnctus — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Macedonian: ко́нцизен (kóncizen) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Macedonian: ла́конски (lákonski) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Macedonian: содр́жаен (sodŕžaen) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Macedonian: зби́ен (zbíen) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Norwegian: konsis — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Persian: مختصر و مفید (moxtasar o mofid) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Persian: موجز (mujez) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Polish: treściwy — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Polish: zwięzły — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Portuguese: sucinto — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Russian: ёмкий (jómkij) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Russian: кра́ткий (krátkij) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Russian: лаконичный (lakoničnyj) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Spanish: sucinto — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Swedish: koncis — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Tibetan: བསྡུས་པ (bsdus pa) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Turkish: mücmel — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Turkish: muhtasar — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Turkish: özlü — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Turkish: veciz — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise
• Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz) — of speech or writing: brief and to the point — see also concise