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Ante Meridiem for short is AM and they both mean before noon.
You may be thinking of 'curt', which is used to describe a short and abrupt way of speaking. It derives from the French 'court'.
The suffix of foreword is for the root word is word short for ward meaning moving forward
Brevis meaning short or small
Short and to the point
petite
short
The word is "slain" (life cut short).
A prefix is a word part that appears before a root word to modify its meaning. Some examples of prefixes are "pre-" meaning before and "un-" meaning not.
It means 'short word', 'gair' meaning word and 'bach' meaning short or small. Oddly enough, 'gair' in both Scots and irish Gaelic means 'short'!!
The abbreviation for the word before would be Previous or Prev for short.
It doesn't really have a meaning, but it is short for Pocket Monsters in Japanese.