different between armada vs brood

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armada (“fleet, navy”), from Medieval Latin arm?ta, from the feminine past participle of Latin arm?, from arma. Doublet of army.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m??d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????m??d?/
• Rhymes: -??d?

Noun

armada (plural armadas)

1. A fleet of warships, especially with reference to the Spanish Armada.
2. Any large army or fleet of military vessels.
3. A large flock of anything.

Translations

Anagrams

• Damara, ramada

Catalan

Etymology

From the feminine past participle of armar, corresponding to Medieval Latin arm?ta, from the feminine past participle of Latin arm?re, from arma (“arms”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /???ma.d?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r?ma.d?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a??ma.da/

Noun

armada f (plural armades)

1. navy

Adjective

armada f sg

1. feminine singular of armat

Verb

armada f sg

1. past participle of armar

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rm?(?)d?/, [??rm?(?)d?]
• Rhymes: -?rm?d?
• Syllabification: ar?ma?da

Noun

armada

1. (military) armada (fleet of warships)

Declension

Anagrams

• draama

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armada. Doublet of armée.

Noun

armada f (plural armadas)

1. (military) armada (fleet of warships)

Further reading

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

Ladino

Noun

armada f (Latin spelling, plural armadas)

1. army

Portuguese

Etymology

From armar +? -ada (or the feminine past participle of armar), corresponding to Medieval Latin arm?ta, from the feminine past participle of Latin arm?re, from arma (“arms”). Cf. also Italian armata.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.?ma.ð?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ma?da

Noun

armada f (plural armadas)

1. (military) armada (fleet of warships)

Adjective

armada f sg

1. feminine singular of armado

Verb

armada

1. feminine singular past participle of armar

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian armada. Compare Italian armata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /armá?da/

Noun

arm?da f

1. army

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From the feminine past participle of armar, corresponding to Medieval Latin arm?ta, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin arm?re, from arma (“arms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??mada/, [a??ma.ð?a]

Noun

armada f (plural armadas)

1. navy
2. fleet

Adjective

armada f sg

1. feminine singular of armado

Verb

armada f sg

1. Feminine singular past participle of armar.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?od, IPA^(key): /b?u?d/
• Homophones: brewed
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. Parentage.
7. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

Adjective

brood (not comparable)

1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

   a brood mare

Verb

brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

3. (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson:

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Translations

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??t/

Noun

brood (plural brode)

1. (countable) A loaf of bread.
2. (uncountable) Bread.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro?t/
• Hyphenation: brood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Noun

brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)

1. (uncountable) Bread.
2. (countable) A loaf of bread.
3. (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4. (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.

Derived terms

- bakery products

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brood

Anagrams

• boord

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brod, brode

Etymology

From Old English br?d.

Adjective

brood

1. broad

Descendants

• English: broad
• Scots: braid