different between creme vs breme

English

Adjective

creme (comparative more creme, superlative most creme)

1. Alternative spelling of crème

Noun

creme (countable and uncountable, plural cremes)

1. Alternative spelling of crème

Verb

creme (third-person singular simple present cremes, present participle creming, simple past and past participle cremed)

1. Alternative spelling of crème

Anagrams

• c'mere, merce

Danish

Etymology

From French crème, a merger of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (khrîsma, “unguent”)) and Late Latin crama (“skim”) (from Gaulish *crama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?????m]

Noun

creme c (singular definite cremen, plural indefinite cremer)

1. cream
2. custard
3. polish

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Faroese: krem

German

Etymology 1

From French crème.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?e?m], [k???m]
• Hyphenation: creme

Adjective

creme (not comparable)

1. (color, indeclinable) cream

Synonyms

• cremefarben, cremefarbig

Related terms

• Creme

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?e?m?]
• Hyphenation: cre?me

Verb

creme

1. inflection of cremen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Further reading

• “creme” in Duden online
• “creme” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr?.me/
• Rhymes: -?me
• Hyphenation: crè?me

Noun

creme f

1. plural of crema

Anagrams

• merce, mercé

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French craime.

Alternative forms

• crem, creyme, crayme, cramin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kr??m(?)/

Noun

creme (uncountable)

1. cream

Descendants

• English: cream
  • ? Chinese: ??, ?? (qílín)
  • ? Hindi: ????? (kr?m)
  • ? Indonesian: krim
  • ? Japanese: ???? (kur?mu)
  • ? Korean: ?? (keurim)
  • ? Thai: ???? (kriim)
  • ? Zulu: ukhilimu

References

• “cr?me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

creme

1. Alternative form of cromen

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?e.mi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?e.me/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k??.m?/

Etymology 1

French crème, from Late Latin cr?mum (“skim”), from Gaulish *crama.

Noun

creme m (plural cremes)

1. (uncountable) milkfat, cream
2. (uncountable) any substance of similar texture
3. an amount or type of the substance
4. cream (color)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:creme.

Synonyms

• (cream (milk product)): nata

Related terms

• cremoso

Etymology 2

Verb

creme

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cremar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cremar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cremar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cremar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cremar.

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kre.me/

Noun

creme

1. plural of crem?

Spanish

Verb

creme

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cremar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cremar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cremar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cremar.

English

Alternative forms

• brim

Etymology

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English br?me (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-Germanic *br?miz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin frem? (“I murmur; I roar”), Ancient Greek ????? (brém?, “I roar”), Polish brzmie? (“to be heard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?i?m/
• Homophone: bream

Adjective

breme

1. (obsolete) Stormy, tempestuous, fierce.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale:

     He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fou?ten breme as it were bores two.

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:

     The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.

   • "So upon the morn there came Sir Gawaine as brim (breme) as any boar, with a great spear in his hand."

2. (obsolete) Famous; renowned; well-known.

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Anagrams

• EBMer, Ember, berme, ember

Italian

Etymology

From Old French bresme. See French brème.

Noun

breme m (plural bremi)

1. bream (of genus Abramis)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Old English

Alternative forms

• brœ?me – Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *br?miz. Cognate with German berühmt (“famous”) and German beroemd (“famous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bre?.me/

Adjective

br?me

1. (poetic) famous, renowned, glorious

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: brem, breme
  • English: breme
  • Scots: breme

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ikavian): brime

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brême/
• Hyphenation: bre?me

Noun

br?me n (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. burden, load

Declension

Derived terms

• bremènit