brume

See also: brumé and brumë

English

WOTD – 18 January 2006

Etymology

Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (winter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹuːm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

brume (countable and uncountable, plural brumes)

  1. (literary) Mist, fog, vapour.
    • 1972, All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon. — John Gardner, Grendel (André Deutsch 1972, p. 77)

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French

Etymology

From Old French brume, borrowed from Latin brūma (winter), possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan bruma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁym/
  • (file)

Noun

brume f (plural brumes)

  1. mist, haze, fog

Descendants

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Italian

Noun

brume f

  1. plural of bruma

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