brunonian
/bɹuˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to John Brown (physician, born 1735), Scottish physician who taught that disease was caused by either excessive or inadequate stimulation.
noun
A student of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.
Example Sentences
- "Hostile criticism has often taken as typical the style of Christian Morals, written at the end of his life and unpublished till 1756—a work showing signs of decadence, in its exaggeration and stiffening of Brunonian traits."
- "The dissertation's organizing idea is that each individual Brunonian work exhibits an historically convergent epistemology"
Etymology
From Bruno + -n- + -ian. From Latin Bruno (“Brown”), from Medieval Latin brunus (“brown”), from Old High German brun (“brown”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɹuˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
- British English: /bɹuːˈnəʊ.ni.ən/