bruit

English

Etymology

From Old French bruit.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro͞ot, IPA: /bruːt/, SAMPA: /bru:t/
• Rhymes: -uːt

  Homophones: brute

Verb

bruit (third-person singular simple present bruits, present participle bruiting, simple past and past participle bruited)

1. (US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
   • 1590, Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia,

     There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.

   • circa 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,

     And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

     Re-speaking earthly thunder.

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld,

     Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.

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French

Etymology

From Old French bruit, use as a noun of the past participle form of bruire (“to roar”), from a Proto-Romanic alteration (by association with braire (“cry”)) of Latin rugire (“roar”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /bʀɥi/

Noun

bruit m. (plural bruits)

1. a noise
2. a rumor or report

Derived terms

• bruitage
• bruiteur

Anagrams

• tribu

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Old French

Noun

bruit m. (oblique plural bruiz, nominative singular bruiz, nominative plural bruit)

1. noise; sounds

Synonyms

• noise

Descendants

• English: bruit
• French: bruit