brume

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English[edit]

WOTD – 18 January 2006    

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /bruːm/

Noun[edit]

brume (uncountable)

  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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French, from Latin brūma (“winter”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brume f (plural brumes)

  1. mist, haze, fog

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

brume f

  1. Plural form of bruma

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