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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