different between brute vs brut

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (barús), Persian ????? (gerân) and Sanskrit ???? (gurú) (English guru).

Adjective

brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)

1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]

2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]

4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.

6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.

Translations

Noun

brute (plural brutes)

1. (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.17:

     But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.

2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]

   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

3. (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
   • 1976, A. Arthur Englander, ?Paul Petzold, Filming for Television (page 191)

     For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

4. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

1. (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Etymology 2

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

1. Obsolete spelling of bruit

Anagrams

• Ubert, buret, rebut, tuber

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

brute

1. Inflected form of bruut

French

Adjective

brute

1. feminine singular of brut

Noun

brute f (plural brutes)

1. brute, an animal lacking in reason.
2. An animal lacking in intelligence and sensibility.
3. (By analogy) A person without reason.
4. One who imposes his will on others using violence - a bully.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• buter, rebut, tuber

Italian

Adjective

brute

1. feminine plural of bruto

Anagrams

• turbe

Latin

Adjective

br?te

1. vocative masculine singular of br?tus

English

Etymology

From French brut (“raw”), from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy”).

Adjective

brut (comparative more brut, superlative most brut)

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

Anagrams

• Burt, trub

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?ut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. unrefined, unpurified
2. dirty

   Synonyms: sutze, llord

   Antonym: net

3. gross

Derived terms

• brutament

Further reading

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

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• brot

Etymology

From Latin br?tus.

Adjective

brut (feminine bruta)

1. ugly
2. bad

French

Etymology

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“heavy, dull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?yt/

Adjective

brut (feminine singular brute, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

1. gross (as opposed to net)
2. raw
3. (drinks) strong

Derived terms

• art brut
• produit intérieur brut

Related terms

• brutal
• brute

Descendants

• ? English: brut
• ? German: brut

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French brut, from Latin br?tus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

brut (not comparable)

1. brut

Declension

Further reading

• “brut” in Duden online

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *br?di, whence also Old Saxon br?d, Old English br?d, Old Norse brúðr,

Noun

br?t f

1. bride

Coordinate terms

• br?tigomo

Descendants

• Middle High German: br?t
  • Alemannic German: Bruut
  • Central Franconian: Brock, Brout, Bruut, Bruck

    Hunsrik: praut

  • German: Braut
  • Luxembourgish: Braut
  • ? Friulian: brût
  • ? Old French: bruy
    • French: bru

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German br?t

Pronunciation

Noun

br?t n (plural brut) (diminutive brut?a)

1. bread
2. loaf (of bread)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewd-. Through vowel-substitution also found as bryt, bryit; compare bruttu.

Pronunciation

• (Umeå, Bygdeå) IPA^(key): /²br??t/
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): /²bre???t/
• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /²br????t/

  Rhymes: -???t

Verb

brut (preterite bröjt or braut, supine brutti)

1. (transitive, with å or sånder) to break; to divide abruptly or remove a piece from something by breaking it

   Hä skikkä säg sä, att’n braut å bäinä

   It so happened, that he broke his leg.

Derived terms

• breot heode för

Related terms

• bruttu