Noun: brosse
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | brosse |
| Plural f | brosses |
Sample Sentences
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Haha! Tu t'es fait une brosse, tu t'es cru en 1982 ou quoi ? (Ha ha! You've got a crew cut; what do you think it is, 1982?)
Nouns inflected like brosse
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French brosse, from Old French broce, brosse, broisse (“brushwood, brush”), of unknown origin. Probably cognate with Catalan brossa and possibly with various other Romance words. Theories include:
2. * From Vulgar Latin *broccia, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos (“heather”).
3. * From Vulgar Latin *bruscia, itself from Latin brūscum (“knot, excrescence on a tree”), or Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“underbrush”), or a confluence of these.
4. * From Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”). This is considered least likely, because the Germanic word does not have the sense “brushwood” while the Romance word does not have the sense “bristle”. See: Catalan Nouns '
brossa', Latin Nouns '
brūscum'.
Verbs referencing "brosse"
English Nouns
brush, Galician Nouns
brosa, Asturian Nouns
bruesa.
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