different between amazing vs bravo

English

Etymology

amaze +? -ing, from Old English ?masian.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?-m?'z?ng, IPA^(key): /??me?z??/, [??me??z??]
• Rhymes: -e?z??

Verb

amazing

1. present participle of amaze
   • 1848, John Bunyan and Robert Philip, The Greatness of the Soul: And the Unspeakableness of the Loss Thereof, page 29, T. Nelson

     How many things have men found out to the amazing of one another, to the wonderment of one another, to the begetting of endless commendations of one another in the world

   • 1909, John Fryer and William Crooke, A New Account of East India and Persia: Being Nine Years' Travels, 1672-1681, page 92, Hakluyt Society

     Fancies to be persuaded of the confused Articulation of Multitudes met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing of them all.

   • 1996 August 5, Tim Behrendsen, "Tim Behrendsen Lost and Spaced THE FINAL TRY", rec.games.computer.quake.misc, Usenet

     Amazing is judged relative what already exists, and Quake has the best underwater effects so far.

   • 1997 November 30, Sir Frederick, "Pro-Mormons are amazing also", alt.religion.mormon.fellowship, Usenet

     Reality, especially God's Reality is amazing. For instance that there is something rather than nothing is amazing. [...] Amazing is amazing.

   • 1999 July 13, Irma Dobkin and Mary Jo Peterson, Gracious Spaces, page xix, McGraw-Hill Professional

     The amazing is happening.

   • 2000 March 24, "Shadow", "Return of the Fulgore Rant!", alt.fan.dragons, Usenet

     All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal.

   • 2001 February 3, Brian, "D3 weird FPS", alt.games.descent Usenet

     The amazing is that, in EXACTLY the same situation, the demo2 doesn't show this problem.

   • 2003 June 23, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas, page 31, University of Chicago Press

     Everything that amazes has its method, until we notice that the amazing is not amazing, has no method.

   • 2004 October 23, MgClearwater, "George says: Joe and Brian stay..", alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees, Usenet

     Sheffield is an amazing athlete, how much of the amazing is provided from the Chemlab.

   • 2006 May 16, Simon Baird, "monkeyGTD is amazing- a few questions and suggestions", GTD TiddlyWiki, Google goups

     Cool! Of course 99% of the amazing is due to the "powered by TiddlyWiki" part of MonkeyGTD.. :)

Adjective

amazing (comparative more amazing, superlative most amazing)

1. Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
2. Possessing uniquely wonderful qualities.
   • 2014, November 8, Nick McCarvel, "Wozniacki's marathon debut was amazing, Djokovic says", USA TODAY Sports

     "Running a marathon is definitely an amazing experience."

3. Very good.
   • 2014, November 6, WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL), VIDEO: "Sitting next to him was amazing" says student of General Via

     "I think it was pretty amazing that he picked our school out of a lot of schools to come speak to us about what he has done, and what our country has done, to help us gain our freedom," Mucci said, “sitting next to him was amazing.”

   • 2015, June 10, Lindsey Bever, "Morning Mix: Another reason seeing-eye dogs are amazing"[1]

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:awesome

Derived terms

• amazingly
• amazingness

Related terms

• amazement

Translations

References

• amazing at OneLook Dictionary Search
• amazing in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amazing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??vo?/, /b???vo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???v??/, /b????v??/
• Rhymes: -??v??, Rhymes: -??

Noun

bravo (plural bravos or bravoes)

1. A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 104:

     Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.

2. A shout of "bravo!"
3. Bravo, the letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Synonyms

• (hired soldier): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Interjection

bravo!

1. Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

   Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!

Usage notes

Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms brave (feminine) and bravi (masculine or mixed).

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:well done

Related terms

• bravissimo

Translations

Verb

bravo (third-person singular simple present bravos or bravoes, present participle bravoing, simple past and past participle bravoed)

1. To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!

French

Etymology

From Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a.vo/

Interjection

bravo

1. bravo!, hear, hear!, well said!, well done!

Noun

bravo m (plural bravos)

1. (in the plural) applause, cheers
2. swordsman

   Synonym: spadassin

Related terms

• bravache
• bravade
• brave
• bravement
• braver
• bravoure

Further reading

• “bravo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?a?o?/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese bravo, from Latin barbarus, which was frequently found in Galician medieval Latin documentation with the meaning of "uncultivated, fallow". Alternatively from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin pr?vus and barbarus.

Adjective

bravo m (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas)

1. uncultivated, harsh, rough (when referring to a land)
   • 1334, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (eds. ), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 487:

     et nos dedes delle en cada ano terça do pan e do viño, e de lino e de liguma do feytuo, e do monte bravo que aromperdes

     and you'll give us each year a third of the grain and of the wine, of the flax, and of the pulses, and of the uncultivated lands that you could plough up

2. wild, spontaneous (when referring to a plant)

   Synonym: ventureiro

3. wild, untamed (when referring to an animal)

   Synonym: salvaxe

4. harsh, fierce
   • 1364, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 441:

     son ende quatro boys, dous bravos et dous massos

     there are four oxen: two are fierce and two are meek

   Synonym: fero

5. strong (when referring to a beverage) or hot spicy

   Synonym: forte

6. bold, valiant

   Synonyms: afouto, arriscado, valente

Derived terms

• besta brava (“wild horse”)
• Bravos
• porco bravo (“wild pig”)
• faneca brava (“lesser weever”)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

Interjection

bravo!

1. bravo!

References

• “bravo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “bravo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bravo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bravo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably from Vulgar Latin *bravus, from a fusion of Latin pr?vus and barbarus. Less likely from Provençal brau (“show-off”), from Gaulish *bragos (compare Middle Irish breagha (modern breá) 'fine', Breton braga 'to strut'). Or perhaps borrowed from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *hrawaz (“raw, uncooked”). Or possibly from a root *bravus, from bravium. Borrowed into French and English as brave.

Pierre Carpentier, in an 18th-century edition of du Cange's 17th-century dictionary of medieval and modern Latin, argued Latin branus originated in a misreading of Italian and Spanish bravo. However, George Nicholson argues the opposite in a 1950 Festschrift article, namely bravo being a misreading of Latin branus, which would have the origin du Cange had originally argued for, from Old French brahaigne (“barren”) (see barren). Compare English gravy, possibly a misreading of French grané (“stew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bra.vo/
• Hyphenation: brà?vo
• Rhymes: -avo

Adjective

bravo (feminine brava, masculine plural bravi, feminine plural brave) (superlative bravissimo)

1. (used before the noun) good, well-behaved
2. good, skilful, capable, clever, fine
3. good, obedient
4. (obsolete) brave, bold
5. (obsolete, of animals) wild, untamed
6. (obsolete, of places) harsh

Related terms

• bravaccio
• bravamente
• bravare
• bravata
• bravazzo
• braveria
• bravino
• bravura
• brav'uomo

Interjection

bravo! m (f brava!, m pl bravi!, f pl brave!)

1. well done!, good show!
2. (theater) bravo!

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?a.vu/
• Hyphenation: bra?vo

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin pr?vus and barbarus.

Adjective

bravo m (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas, comparable)

1. angry; furious, annoyed

   Synonyms: furioso, irado, raivoso, enraivecido, brabo

2. brave; valiant, courageous

   Synonyms: valente, destemido, corajoso

3. coarse; uneducated, uncivilized

   Synonyms: bárbaro, rude, grosseiro

4. prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric

   Synonyms: genioso, irritadiço, brabo

5. rigorous, authoritarian

   Synonyms: rígido, rigoroso, severo, brabo

6. (of a person, or situation) difficult, unmanageable

   Synonyms: ruço, difícil, brabo

7. (of an animal) undomesticated

   Synonyms: bravio, silvestre, brabo

8. (of a plant, or vegetable) spontaneous, weed

   Synonym: espontâneo

9. (of the land) uncultivated

   Synonyms: bravio, inculto

10. (of the sea) stormy

    Synonyms: tempestuoso, brabo

11. (hypercorrect) Alternative form of brabo

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

Interjection

bravo!

1. bravo! well done!

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?abo/, [?b?a.??o]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin pr?vus and barbarus (or from metathesis of an intermediate form *babru-).

Adjective

bravo (feminine brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas) (superlative bravísimo)

1. angry, furious

   Synonyms: enojado, enfadado, fiero, mañoso

2. bold, courageous

   Synonym: valiente

3. skilful, capable, clever, fine
4. good, excellent
5. agitated (sea)
6. wild (animal)

   Synonym: salvaje

Derived terms

Related terms

• bravear
• bravero
• braveza
• bravío
• bravucón
• bravura
• desbravar
• embravecer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

Interjection

¡bravo!

1. (in general use) well done!, good show!
2. (at the theatre, etc) bravo!

Further reading

• “bravo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a.vo/

Interjection

bravo!

1. well done!, good show!
2. (theater) bravo!