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

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

French Wikipedia has an article on:

brome

Wikipedia ^fr

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