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A brumous day in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

From brume +‎ -ous, probably modelled after French brumeux (foggy, hazy, misty),[1] from Late Latin brūmōsus (wintry),[2] from Latin brūma (winter solstice; winter; winter cold) + -ōsus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). 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).

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Adjective

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brumous (comparative more brumous, superlative most brumous)

  1. (literary) Foggy or misty; wintry. [from mid 19th c.]

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  1. ^ brumous, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2016.
  2. ^ brumous, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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