different between bronze vs contorniate

English

Etymology

1730-40; from French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.); see it for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??nz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)

1. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
2. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

3. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
4. A bronze medal.

5. Boldness; impudence; brass.

Translations

Adjective

bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)

1. Made of bronze metal.

   Synonym: bronzen

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

2. Having a reddish-brown colour.
3. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)

1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.

2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
   • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137, [1]

     The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.

   • 1961, Freya Stark, Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Chapter 8, p. 122,

     North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.

3. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
   • 2006, Melissa Lassor, "Out of Darkness", page 124 in Watching Time

     His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.

4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• bonzer

Catalan

Alternative forms

• bronzo

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?b?on.z?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?on.ze/
• Rhymes: -onze

Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)

1. bronze (metal)
2. bronze medal

Derived terms

• bronzejar-se
• bronzejat
• Edat del bronze

Further reading

• “bronze” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bronze” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “bronze” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bronze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bronze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b????s?]

Noun

bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)

1. (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
2. (countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal

Inflection

Further reading

• bronze on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

From Italian bronzo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???z/

Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)

1. bronze (metal, work of art)

Derived terms

• âge de bronze
• couler un bronze
• médaille de bronze
• mouler un bronze

Descendants

• ? Persian: ????? (boronz)
• ? Portuguese: bronze

Verb

bronze

1. first-person singular present indicative of bronzer
2. third-person singular present indicative of bronzer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bronzer
5. second-person singular imperative of bronzer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bornez

Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.

Noun

bronze

1. bronze

Occitan

Pronunciation

Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)

1. bronze

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (bront?síon), presumably from ?????????? (Brent?sion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian ????? (birinj, biranj, “brass”) ~ ????? (piring, “copper”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?õ.zi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?õ.ze/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?õ.z?/

Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)

1. bronze
2. skin tan

Related terms

• bronzear
• bronzeado

English

Etymology

Italian contorniato, present participle of contorniare (“to make a circuit or outline”).

Noun

contorniate (plural contorniates)

1. A bronze medal or medallion with a deep furrow on the contour or edge, supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of R. S. Poole to this entry?)

Adjective

contorniate (not comparable)

1. Having a furrow of this kind.

Italian

Verb

contorniate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of contornare