brume en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bɹuːm/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /bɹɪu̯m/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰusder. Proto-Italic *breɣʷis Latin brevis Latin brūmabor. Old French brume French brumebor. English brume Borrowed 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”).
Meanings
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(countable, literary, uncountable) Mist, fog, vapour.
For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon.
1972, John Gardner, Grendel, André Deutsch, page 77:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| brumes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |