different between bruit vs brunt

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

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
   • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

     There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:

     "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"

     "What if they do? We must brunt it."

   We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

• burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.