different between brasse vs wrasse

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (“bream”), and English bream.

Noun

brasse (plural brasses)

1. A spotted European freshwater fish Sander lucioperca, resembling a perch.

Synonyms

• (Sander lucioperca): zander

Anagrams

• BSAers, Brases, Sabers, barses, besras, sabers, sabres

French

Etymology

From Latin (t?nsa) bracchia (“(outstretched) arms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?as/

Noun

brasse f (plural brasses)

1. fathom (unit of measure)
2. (swimming) stroke
3. (swimming) breaststroke

   le 100 mètres à la brasse — 100 metre breaststroke (event)

See also

• toise

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• brases, sabres

English

Etymology

Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

wrasse (plural wrasses)

1. Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored. [from mid-17th c.]

Hyponyms

• (species called wrasse): wrasse at FishBase.

Derived terms

• comb wrasse (Coris picta)
• humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)
• wrasse blenny (Hemiemblemaria simulus)
• See search for * wrasse at OneLook.

Translations

Anagrams

• Wasser, resaws, sawers, swares, swears