breve
/briːv/noun
1
- Music a note, rarely used in modern music, having the time value of two semibreves, and represented as a semibreve with two short bars either side, or as a square【乐】二全音符。
2
- a written or printed mark (ˇ) indicating a short of unstressed vowel短音符号(ˇ)。
3
- historical an authoritative letter from a pope or monarch〈史〉（教皇或君主的）谕令, 上谕。
词源
Middle English: variant of BRIEF. In the musical sense， the term was originally used in a series where a long was of greater time value than a breve.