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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!

English

Etymology

From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?v, IPA^(key): /b?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Adjective

brave (comparative braver, superlative bravest)

1. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

   Synonyms: bold, daring, doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart

   Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, mean, weak

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:

     Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.

   • 1987, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:

     […] he has been so brave, giving it all a dignity.

2. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations

     Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.

   • February 18, 1666, Samuel Pepys,, diary entry

     It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.

3. Making a fine show or display.
   • 1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque

     For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day

     Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Synonyms

• (courageous): See also Thesaurus:brave

Translations

Noun

brave (plural braves)

1. (dated) A Native American warrior.
2. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
   • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence

     Hot braves like thee may fight.

3. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.

Translations

Verb

brave (third-person singular simple present braves, present participle braving, simple past and past participle braved)

1. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:

     For Cassius is aweary of the world;

     Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

     Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,

     Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,

     To cast into my teeth.

   • 1670, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards:

     The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear,

     These I can brave, but those I cannot bear […]

   • 1773, A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Number 53, December 2

     […] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.

   After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
   • ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):

     Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave

     not me. I will neither be faced nor braved.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Baver

Esperanto

Etymology 1

brava +? -e

Adverb

brave

1. bravely, valiantly

Etymology 2

From Italian bravo.

Interjection

brave

1. bravo

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian bravo. Compare Spanish, Portuguese bravo. Doublet of bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?av/

Adjective

brave (plural braves)

1. brave
2. honest

Synonyms

• courageux
• bon
• honnête
• preux

Noun

brave m (plural braves)

1. hero

Related terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• baver

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?v?

Adjective

brave

1. inflection of brav:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

brave

1. feminine plural of bravo

Norman

Etymology

From Late Latin *bravus.

Adjective

brave m or f

1. brave

Derived terms

• bravement (“bravely”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brave

1. definite singular/plural of brav

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

brave

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of br?ti (“to say”)