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Bruno

See also: bruno, bruño, bruñó, brūno, and brůno

English

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Etymology

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From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.

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Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)

  1. (countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • 1983, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 169:
      He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.
  2. (countable) A surname from Italian.
  3. (folklore) A name for the bear.
  4. A placename
    1. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada
    2. A municipality of Piedmont, Italy
    3. A city in Minnesota, United States
    4. A village in Nebraska, United States

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Czech

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Bruno m anim

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Declension

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Declension of Bruno (masculine animate in -o)
singular plural
nominative Bruno Brunové
genitive Bruna Brunů
dative Brunovi, Brunu Brunům
accusative Bruna Bruny
vocative Bruno Brunové
locative Brunovi, Brunu Brunech
instrumental Brunem Bruny

Danish

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Bruno

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old High German [Term?]. Related to bruin.

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Bruno m

  1. a male given name

Estonian

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Bruno (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

French

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Bruno m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

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German

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Bruno

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Italian

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Etymology

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Saint's name of Germanic origin, cognate to English Bruno. The surname also originates as a nickname from bruno (“brown”), cognate with English Brown.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbru.no/
  • Rhymes: -uno
  • Hyphenation: Brù‧no

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Bruno m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

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Bruno m or f by sense

  1. a common surname, equivalent to English Brown

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Latin

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Etymology

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Latinisation of names of the form Brūn in Proto-Germanic and/or its descendant languages, deriving from the root *brūnaz (“brown”): Germanic Brūn + Latin -ō (suffix forming masculine personal names).

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Brūnō m sg (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

  1. a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Brown

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Third-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Brūnō
genitive Brūnōnis
dative Brūnōnī
accusative Brūnōnem
ablative Brūnōne
vocative Brūnō

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Noun

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Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

  1. any man named “Bruno” or an equivalent, a Bruno

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Brūnō Brūnōnēs
genitive Brūnōnis Brūnōnum
dative Brūnōnī Brūnōnibus
accusative Brūnōnem Brūnōnēs
ablative Brūnōne Brūnōnibus
vocative Brūnō Brūnōnēs

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Latvian

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Etymology

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First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate to German and English Bruno.

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Bruno m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

References

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  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
  • [1] Population Register of Latvia: Bruno was the only given name of 1104 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

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  • Hyphenation: Bru‧no

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Bruno m (plural Brunos)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Serbo-Croatian

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Brȕno m (Cyrillic spelling Бру̏но)

  1. a male given name

Declension

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Declension of Bruno
singular
nominative Bruno
genitive Brune / Bruna
dative Brunu / Bruni
accusative Brunu / Bruna
vocative Bruno
locative Brunu / Bruni
instrumental Brunom

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  • “Bruno”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Slovak

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Etymology

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Derived from German Bruno.

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Bruno m pers

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

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Declension of Bruno
(pattern chlap)
singularplural
nominativeBrunoBrunovia
genitiveBrunaBrunov
dativeBrunoviBrunom
accusativeBrunaBrunov
locativeBrunoviBrunoch
instrumentalBrunomBrunami

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Further reading

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  • “Bruno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾuno/ [ˈbɾu.no]
  • Rhymes: -uno
  • Syllabification: Bru‧no

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Bruno m

  1. a male given name

Swedish

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From German Bruno.

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Bruno c (genitive Brunos)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno
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