different between scent vs brachet

English

Alternative forms

• sent (obsolete)

Etymology

From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sent?re, present active infinitive of senti?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?nt, IPA^(key): /s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophones: cent, sent

Noun

scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)

1. A distinctive odour or smell.

2. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

3. The sense of smell.

4. A perfume.
5. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.

Usage notes

• Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).

Synonyms

Derived terms

• scented
• scentless

Translations

Verb

scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of.

3. (transitive) To impart an odour to.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.

   • Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.

5. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Translations

Anagrams

• cents

English

Etymology

From Middle English brachet, from Old French brachet, a diminutive of Old Occitan brac, from Frankish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?æt???t/
• Rhymes: -æt??t

Noun

brachet (plural brachets)

1. (obsolete) A female hunting hound that hunts by scent.

See also

• brach

Anagrams

• Bachert, Chabert, batcher, braceth, rebatch

Old French

Alternative forms

• braquet

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French and Old Occitan brac (“hound”), from Old High German and Frankish *brakko, from Proto-Germanic *brak (“dog that hunts by scent”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?g- (“to smell”). Cognate with Old High German braccho.

Noun

brachet m (oblique plural brachez or brachetz, nominative singular brachez or brachetz, nominative plural brachet)

1. hunting dog trained to follow the scent of an animal

Descendants

• ? English: brachet

References

• “brachet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English