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English

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English bruit (“commotion, tumult; fame, renown; collective noun for a group of barons”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman brut (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour; collective noun for a group of barons”) and Old French bruit (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour”) (modern French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”)), a noun use of the past participle of bruire (“to make a noise; to rattle; to roar; to rustle”), from Late Latin brugere, an alteration of Latin rug?re (“to roar”) (the present active infinitive of rugi? (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewg- (“to belch; to roar”)), possibly influenced by Late Latin bragere (“to bray”). The English word is cognate with Catalan brogir (“to roar”); Old Occitan bruir, brugir (“to roar”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bro?ot, IPA^(key): /b?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: brute

Noun

bruit (countable and uncountable, plural bruits)

1. (uncountable, archaic) Hearsay, rumour; talk; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (countable, obsolete) A clamour, an outcry; a noise.

Verb

bruit (third-person singular simple present bruits, present participle bruiting, simple past and past participle bruited)

1. (transitive, archaic in Britain, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bruiter (archaic)

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”), from Old French bruit (“noise; sounds”); see further at etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?u?i/, /b?u??i?/, /b?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?ui/, /b?u?i/, /b?ut/
• Hyphenation: bru?it; not hyphenated if pronounced as a single syllable

Noun

bruit (plural bruits)

1. (medicine) An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. [from 19th c.]

Translations

References

Further reading

• bruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French bruit, used as a noun of the past participle form of bruire (“to roar”), from a Proto-Romance alteration (by association with braire (“to bray; to cry out, shout out”)) of Latin rug?tus (“brayed; bellowed, roared; rumbled”) (compare Vulgar Latin *brugitus, from Latin *br?gere). Compare also Spanish ruido, Portuguese ruído, and French rut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??i/

Noun

bruit m (plural bruits)

1. a noise

   Synonym: (Louisiana) hélas

2. a rumor or report

Derived terms

• bruitage
• bruiteur
• faire du bruit

Descendants

• ? English: bruit

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tribu

Old French

Etymology

From the past participle of bruire (“to roar”), or from Vulgar Latin *br?gitus, from Latin *br?gere, an alteration of Latin rug?tus (“brayed; bellowed, roared; rumbled”), from rug?re, the present active infinitive of rugi? (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewg- (“to belch; to roar”).

Noun

bruit m (oblique plural bruiz or bruitz, nominative singular bruiz or bruitz, nominative plural bruit)

1. noise; sounds

   Synonym: noise

Descendants

• ? English: bruit
• French: bruit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjan? (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English br?otan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

Alternative forms

• britt
• brite (dialectal)

Verb

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

Derived terms

• britten
• brittle

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

Alternative forms

• britt

Noun

brit (plural brit)

1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

Etymology 3

Short for brit milah.

Alternative forms

• bris

Noun

brit (plural brits)

1. brit milah

Anagrams

• BIRT, Birt, Trib, birt, trib

Albanian

Etymology

Gheg word. From Proto-Albanian *breita, from Proto-Indo-European *bhr?i-, *bhr??- (“to pierce, cut with something sharp”). Cognate to Lithuanian bárti (“to scold, chide”), Old Irish briathar (“argument”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (brati, “fight”), Welsh brwydr (“fight, struggle”).

Noun

brit f

1. scream, yell

Derived terms

• bërtas
• britmë