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bronzo

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See also: bronzò

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From English bronze, French bronze, German Bronze, Italian bronzo, Polish brąz, and Russian бронза (bronza).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbronzo/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -onzo
  • Hyphenation: bron‧zo

Noun

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bronzo (accusative singular bronzon, plural bronzoj, accusative plural bronzojn)

  1. bronze

Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto bronzoEnglish bronzeFrench bronzeGerman BronzeItalian bronzoRussian бро́нза (brónza)Spanish bronce.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bronzo (plural bronzi)

  1. bronze

Derived terms

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbron.d͡zo/
  • Rhymes: -ondzo
  • Hyphenation: brón‧zo

Etymology 1

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Attestions begin in northern Italy, and include bronzo in a Latin context in Liber consuetudinum Mediolani (1216);[1] Lombard bronz, bronzo in Liber di Tre Scricciur, 1274;[2] Venetan brondi ? in a semi-Latin document from Verona, 1339.[3]

Immediately, possibly from Latin *brundium,[4] or directly from Latin brandisium (var.: bra/-i/-o), attested in recipes of bronze from the 8th-9th centuries CE.[5][6] Related to Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon, bronze) (11th century), also from alchemy books.[7][8]

Several theories exist for the earlier stages:

Reborrowed as Renaissance Latin bronzium,[15] from the early 1400s.[16]

Noun

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bronzo m (plural bronzi)

  1. bronze (metal or object)
  2. bell, especially church bell
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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bronzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bronzare

References

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  1. ^ Berlan, Francesco, ed. (1866). Liber consuetudinum Mediolani anni 1216 ex Bibliothecæ Ambrosianæ codice nunc primum editus, § XXXI. pp. 73-74
  2. ^ bronzo”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini
  3. ^ Cipolla, Carlo (1902) “Un amico di Cangrande I della Scala e la sua famiglia”, in Memorie della Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino (II) (in Italian), volume 51, page 40,44
  4. ^ brónzo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  5. 5.0 5.1 Lippmann, Edmund O. von (1919) Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie, mit einem Anhange: Zur älteren Geschichte der Metalle : ein Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte[1], Springer. See pp. 559-569, especially 560-564 for Lippmann's detailed discussion of previous theories, and his own (thunder), and pp. 467-471 for an introduction of the Latin manuscripts.
  6. ^ Cf. brandisium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
  7. ^ Greek transcription at: Berthelot, M. (Marcellin), Ruelle, Ch-Em (1887) Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs, Paris : G. Steinheil, V.xvi, page 376, line 22,25
  8. ^ Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. Z. 299 (=584)
  9. ^ Berthelot (1888) “Sur le nom du bronze chez les alchimistes grecs”, in Journal des Savants[2] (in French), page 677
  10. 10.0 10.1 Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “bronzo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  11. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “bronzo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  12. ^ Kahane, Henry, Kahane, Renée (1968) “Graeco-Romance Etymologies (II)”, in Romance Philology, volume 21, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 502–510
  13. ^ Spitzer, L. (1923) “Etimologies catalanes”, in Butlletí de dialectologia catalana, volume 11, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, pages 119-122
  14. ^ Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1657, pages 132–133
  15. ^ "bronzium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  16. ^ Musso, Giovanni. Piacenza chronicle (Chronicon Placentinum). Edition in Muratori, Rerum italicarum scriptores, volume 16 (1730), p. 491

Further reading

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bronzo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana