breviary
noun /ˈbriːviəri/
/ˈbriːvieri/
(plural breviaries)
- a book containing the words of the service for each day in the Roman Catholic churchWord Originlate Middle English (also denoting an abridged version of the Psalms): from Latin breviarium ‘summary, abridgement’, from breviare ‘abridge’, from brevis ‘short, brief’.