breve -
Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
breve -
A curved mark used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
breve -
The great ant thrush of Sumatra Pitta gigas, which has a very short tail.
Wikipedia
A breve is a diacritical mark ˘, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. It looks similar to the caron (i.e. wedge or háček in Czech), but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded.
