Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brume

/bɹuːm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables: brume
IPA: /bɹuːm/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Mist, fog, vapour.

Countable; Literary; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated."
"All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰusder. Proto-Italic *breɣʷis Latin brevis Latin brūmabor. Old French brume French brumebor. English brume Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: brume, brūma, *mréǵʰus

Usage

Inflected Forms

brumes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

brumous brumal brumate

Homonyms

broom

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce brume?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɹuːm/.
What does brume mean?: Mist, fog, vapour.
Where does brume come from?: It is traced to French.

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