brame

See also: Brame and bramé

English

Etymology

From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.

Noun

brame (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) intense passion or emotion; vexation
    • Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52
      ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

Pronunciation
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Verb

brame

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bramer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of bramer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bramer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of bramer
  5. second-person singular imperative of bramer

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Italian

Noun

brame f

  1. plural of brama

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Spanish

Verb

brame

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bramar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bramar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bramar.
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