brome

See also: bromé and Brome

English

Etymology

From New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹəʊm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

brome (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

1. Any grass of the genus Bromus.
2. (obsolete) bromine

Synonyms

• bromegrass

Derived terms

• ripgut brome
• smooth brome

 

Translations

grass of Bromus

• Albanian: modhë f
• Belarusian: каласоўнік m (kalasóŭnik), касцёр m (kascjór)
• Bulgarian: овсига (ovsiga)
• Czech: sveřep
• Danish: hejre (da)
• Dutch: dravik (nl) f
• Finnish: kattara (fi)
• French: brome (fr) m
• German: Trespe (de) f
• Hungarian: rozsnok (hu)
• Italian: forasacco m
• Kazakh: арпабас (arpabas)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەسپەک (espek)

• Lithuanian: dirsė
• Norman: (barren brome, great brome, soft-brome) droe f
• Norwegian: faks
• Polish: stokłosa (pl) f
• Romanian: obsigă (ro) f
• Russian: костёр (ru) m (kostjór)
• Serbo-Croatian: ovsik (sh) m, stoklasa (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kóstrjawa f

  Upper Sorbian: kostrjawa f

• Spanish: bromo (es) m
• Swedish: losta (sv)
• Ukrainian: стоколос m (stokolos)

See also

• cheat grass, cheatgrass

Anagrams

• B-more, Bomer, omber, ombre

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁom/

• Audio:

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Noun

brome m (uncountable)

1. bromine
2. brome (plant)

Derived terms

• bromate
• bromique
• bromure

Descendants

• → Danish: brom
• → Dutch: broom
• → English: bromine
  • → Malay: bromin
• → German: Brom
  • → Estonian: broom
• → Italian: bromo
• Lingala: bomo
• → Luxembourgish: Brom
• → Ottoman Turkish: بروم (brom)
  • Turkish: brom
• → Persian: برم (brom)
• → Romanian: brom
• → Russian: бром (brom)
  • → Kazakh: бром (brom)
• → Slovak: bróm
• → Spanish: bromo
• → Vietnamese: brom

Further reading

• “brome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ombre, ombré

Latin

Noun

brome

1. vocative singular of bromos

Middle English

Noun

brome

1. Alternative form of brom