different between bride vs bribe

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English bride, from Old English br?d (“bride”), from Proto-Germanic *br?diz (“bride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

   • I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

   • 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode

     Has by his own experience tried
     How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

   Coordinate terms: bridegroom, groom

2. (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• husband-to-be
• wife-to-be

Verb

bride (third-person singular simple present brides, present participle briding, simple past and past participle brided)

1. (obsolete) to make a bride of

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).

Noun

bride (plural brides)

1. an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

Anagrams

• bider, birde, rebid

French

Etymology

From Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German br?del (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German br?dil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz (“bridle”). Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?id/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

bride f (plural brides)

1. (horsemanship) bridle
2. strap
3. loop (of a button); bride (of lace)
4. (medicine) adhesion
5. flange

Derived terms

• à bride abattue

Verb

bride

1. inflection of brider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

bride f

1. plural of brida

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brid, bryd, bryde, brude

Etymology

Inherited from Old English br?d, from Proto-Germanic *br?diz (“bride, daughter-in-law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri?d/

Noun

bride (plural brides or bruden)

1. a bride; a woman recently married or to be married
2. (theology) Christendom as God's partner
3. (rare) any young woman in a relationship
4. (rare) a groom; a man recently married or to be married

Related terms

Descendants

• English: bride
• Scots: bride
• Yola: breede

References

• “br?d(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?ide/, [?b?i.ð?e]

Verb

bride

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bridar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bridar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bridar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bridar.

English

Etymology

From Old French briber (“go begging”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bribe (plural bribes)

1. Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
   • c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill

     Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.

2. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
   • 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination

     Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.

   • 1974, George Fox, Mario Puzo, Earthquake

     Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:bribe

Derived terms

• bribeless
• bribeproof
• bribetaking

Translations

Verb

bribe (third-person singular simple present bribes, present participle bribing, simple past and past participle bribed)

1. (transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
   • October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute

     Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.

2. (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ribbe

French

Etymology

Imitative. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ib/
• Rhymes: -ib

Noun

bribe f (plural bribes)

1. (obsolete) crumb (of bread)
2. scrap, bit

Further reading

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