Bruno

English

Etymology

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”). The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːnəʊ

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name.
   • 1983 Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press (2000), ISBN 0226730727, page 169:

     He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.

2. A surname.

Translations

male given name

Arabic: برونو (ar) (bruunu) m. Bengali: ব্রুনো (bn) (bruno) Chinese: Mandarin: 布魯諾 (zh), 布鲁诺 (zh) (Bùlǔnuò) Czech: Bruno (cs) m. Danish: Bruno (da) c. French: Bruno (fr) m. German: Bruno (de) m.

Hindi: ब्रूनो (hi) (brūno) m. Italian: Bruno (it) m. Japanese: ブルーノ (ja) (Burūno) Korean: 브루노 (ko) (Beuruno) Latvian: Bruno (lv) m. Russian: Бруно (ru) (Brúno) m. (indeclinable) Swedish: Bruno (sv) c.

surname

Arabic: برونو (ar) (bruunu) m. and f. Bengali: ব্রুনো (bn) (bruno) Chinese: Mandarin: 布魯諾 (zh), 布鲁诺 (zh) (Bùlǔnuò) French: Bruno (fr) m. and f. German: Bruno (de) m. and f.

Hindi: ब्रूनो (hi) (brūno) Italian: Bruno (it) m. and f. Japanese: ブルーノ (ja) (Burūno) Korean: 브루노 (ko) (Beuruno) Russian: Бруно (ru) (Brúno) m. and f. (indeclinable)

Anagrams

• bourn
• buron

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Bruno m.

1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

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Danish

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

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French

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

Anagrams

• buron

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German

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

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Italian

Etymology

Saint's name of Germanic origin, cognate to English Bruno. The surname also originates as a nickname from bruno (“brown”), cognate with English Brown.

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name.
2. A common surname.

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate to German and English Bruno.

Proper noun

Bruno m.

1. A male given name.

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Bruno was the only given name of 1104 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Bruno m.

1. A male given name, cognate with English Bruno.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Bruno

1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.