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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French brie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: bree

Noun

brie (uncountable)

1. A variety of soft, mild French cheese made from cow's milk.

Translations

See also

• camembert

Anagrams

• bier

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French brie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri/
• Hyphenation: brie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

brie m (uncountable)

1. brie (variety of French cheese)

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French brie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri?/, [?bri?]

Noun

brie

1. brie

Usage notes

As the plural forms are somewhat awkward to use it may be advisable to replace the word in plural with a synonym such as: briejuusto (“brie as mass noun”), briepala (“piece of brie”), brieannos (“serving of brie”).

Declension

Synonyms

• briejuusto

French

Etymology

Named after Brie, France, from Gaulish briga (“hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i/

Noun

brie m (plural bries)

1. brie

References

Further reading

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

Manx

Verb

brie (verbal noun briaght)

1. ask (for information)

Synonyms

• fenee

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

brie f (plural bries)

1. (Jersey) sweetbread

Portuguese

Etymology

From French brie

Noun

brie m (plural bries)

1. brie (variety of French cheese)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French brie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri/

Noun

brie n (uncountable)

1. brie (variety of French cheese)

Spanish

Etymology

From French brie.

Noun

brie m (plural bries)

1. brie (variety of French cheese)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Translations

See also

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

Etymology 2

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugj?. Doublet of bridge.

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.

Etymology 3

Clipping of brigadier

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• RGBI

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bry??.

Noun

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Alternative forms

• brigg, bryg, bregg

Descendants

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • ? English: brig, brigg

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?i??/

Noun

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

Mutation

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brik/

Noun

brig m

1. bank, shore (of a river)

Scots

Alternative forms

• brigg, breeg

Etymology

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Descendants

• ? English: brig, brigg

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English brig.

Noun

brig m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. A brig (two-masted vessel)

Synonyms

• brik

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri??/

Noun

brig m (plural brigau)

1. crest, peak, summit, top

Mutation