breme

See also brème, and Brême

English

Alternative forms

• brim

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”), from *bʰrem- (“to make noise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /briːm/
• Homophone: bream

Adjective

breme

1. (obsolete) stormy, tempestuous, fierce

   • Late 14th century: He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fouȝten breme as it were bores two. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale
   • 1579: Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe. — Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
   • 1748: The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme — James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence

   • Drayton

     From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.

2. (obsolete) famous; renowned; well-known

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Anagrams

• ember

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brōmiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbreːme/

Adjective

brēme

1. (poetic) famous, renowned

Descendants

• brim

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Croatia) brjeme, brime

Pronunciation

• IPA: /brême/
• Hyphenation: bre‧me

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bermę.

Noun

brȅme n (Cyrillic spelling бре̏ме)

1. burden, load

Declension

    declension of breme

	singular	plural
nominative	breme	bremèna
genitive	bremena	bremena
dative	bremenu	bremenima
accusative	breme	bremena
vocative	breme	bremena
locative	bremenu	bremenima
instrumental	bremenom	bremenima

Derived terms

• bremènit