brin
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Noun
brin (plural brins)
- One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
Etymology
Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinikā, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broen-enn, Welsh brwyn-en).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɛ̃/
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- Rhymes: -ɛ̃
Noun
brin m (plural brins)
See also
Further reading
- “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 257, 258
- “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
- Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
- “brin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Adjective
brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
brȉn m inan
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | brìn | ||
gen. sing. | brína | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
brìn | brína | bríni |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
brína | brínov | brínov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
brínu | brínoma | brínom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
brìn | brína | bríne |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
brínu | brínih | brínih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
brínom | brínoma | bríni |
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