brome

See also: bromé and Brome

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹəʊm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊm

Etymology 1

From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).

Noun

brome (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

2. Any grass of the genus Bromus.

Synonyms

• bromegrass

Derived terms

• ripgut brome
• smooth brome

Translations

grass of Bromus

• Albanian: modhë f
• Belarusian: каласоўнік m (kalasównik), касцёр m (kascjór)
• Bulgarian: овсига (ovsiga)
• Czech: sveřep
• Danish: hejre (da)
• Dutch: dravik (nl) f
• Finnish: kattara (fi)
• French: brome (fr) m
• German: Trespe (de) f
• Greek: βρόμος (el) m (vrómos)
• Hungarian: rozsnok (hu)
• Italian: forasacco m
• Kazakh: арпабас (arpabas)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەسپەک (espek)

• Lithuanian: dirsė
• Norman: (barren brome, great brome, soft-brome) droe f
• Norwegian: faks
• Polish: stokłosa (pl) f
• Romanian: obsigă (ro) f
• Russian: костёр (ru) m (kostjór)
• Serbo-Croatian: ovsik (sh) m, stoklasa (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kóstrjawa f

  Upper Sorbian: kostrjawa f

• Spanish: bromo (es) m
• Swedish: losta (sv)
• Ukrainian: стоколос m (stokolos)
• Welsh: pawrwellt m pl

See also

• cheat grass, cheatgrass

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos)

French bromebor.

English brome

From French brome, coined from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”). Doublet of bromus.

Noun

brome (uncountable)

2. (obsolete) bromine

Related terms

• bromine (see there for translations and more cognates)

Anagrams

• B-more, Bomer, omber, ombre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁom/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

Noun

brome m (uncountable)

2. bromine

Derived terms

• bromate
• bromique
• bromure

Descendants

• → Danish: brom
• → Dutch: broom
• → English: brome
• →⇒ English: bromine, bromin (archaic)
  • → Malay: bromin
  • → Swahili: bromini
• → German: Brom
  • → Estonian: broom
• → Italian: bromo
• Lingala: bomo
• → Luxembourgish: Brom
• → Ottoman Turkish: بروم (brom)
  • Turkish: brom
• → Persian: برم (borom)
• → Romanian: brom
• → Russian: бром (brom)
  • → Kazakh: бром (brom)
• → Slovak: bróm
• → Spanish: bromo
• → Vietnamese: brom

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from New Latin bromus (= translingual Bromus (genus name)), from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “(wild) oat”).

Noun

brome m (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

2. brome (plant)

Further reading

• “brome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• ombre, ombré

Latin

Noun

brome

1. vocative singular of bromos

Middle English

Noun

brome

1. alternative form of brom