Bremer
Translingual
editProper noun
editBremer
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Hans Bremer (fl. 1947).
Further reading
editEnglish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Bremer, equivalent to Brem(en) + -er.
Noun
editBremer (plural Bremers)
- A native or inhabitant of Bremen, Germany.
- 2009, Lynn K. Nyhart, “Biological Groups, Nature, and Culture in the Museum”, in Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 258:
- Tobacco, cotton, and sugar from the tropics were all imported in raw form and turned into cigars, cloth, and processed sugar in Bremen and its surrounding villages. Bremers sought to promote their city's role as a business center based on imports.
Proper noun
editBremer
- A habitational surname from German.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bremer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 223.
German
editEtymology
editFrom Bremen + -er. The ending -en is sometimes lost before the suffix -er without there being a clear rule (compare -hausen, which makes -häuser or -hausener). The use for a sandwich is a pun on Hamburger.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editBremer m (strong, genitive Bremers, plural Bremer, feminine Bremerin)
- Bremer (person)
- fishburger, a sandwich filled with a fishcake
- Synonym: Fischfrikadellenbrötchen
Declension
editDeclension of Bremer [masculine, strong]
Adjective
editBremer (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Bremen
Derived terms
editRelated terms
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