brume
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrume (countable and uncountable, plural brumes)
- (literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
- 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] [1], volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
- For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
- 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, André Deutsch, page 77:
- All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French brume, borrowed from Latin brūma (“winter”), possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan bruma.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrume f (plural brumes)
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editDescendants
edit- → English: brume
Further reading
edit- “brume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editEtymology
editAttested since the 18th century. Unknown: perhaps from Latin morbus, blended with Latin vomica.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrume m (plural brumes)
References
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brume”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “brume”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “brume”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gormar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbrume f
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editNoun
editbrume
- (Northern) Alternative form of brom
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