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Bruno

Bruno

See also: bruno, bruño, bruñó, and brūno

English

Proper noun

Bruno

  1. A male given name.
    • 1983 Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press (2000), ISBN 0226730727, page 169:
      He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.
  2. A surname.
  3. (folklore) A name for the bear.
  4. A city in Minnesota
  5. A village in Nebraska
  6. A municipality in Piedmont, Italy
  7. A town in Saskatchewan

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Czech

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bruno m

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

Danish

Proper noun

Bruno

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

French

Proper noun

Bruno

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

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German

Proper noun

Bruno

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

Italian

Etymology

Saint's name of Germanic origin, cognate to English Bruno. The surname also originates as a nickname from bruno (brown), cognate with English Brown.

Proper noun

Bruno ?

  1. A male given name.
  2. A common surname.

Latin

Etymology

Latinisation of names of the form Brūn in Proto-Germanic and/or its descendant languages, deriving from the root *brūnaz (brown): Germanic Brūn + Latin (suffix forming masculine personal names).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

  1. A male given name, equivalent to English Brown

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular
nominative Brūnō
genitive Brūnōnis
dative Brūnōnī
accusative Brūnōnem
ablative Brūnōne
vocative Brūnō

Derived terms

Noun

Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

  1. any man named “Bruno” or an equivalent, a Bruno

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative Brūnō Brūnōnēs
genitive Brūnōnis Brūnōnum
dative Brūnōnī Brūnōnibus
accusative Brūnōnem Brūnōnēs
ablative Brūnōne Brūnōnibus
vocative Brūnō Brūnōnēs

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate to German and English Bruno.

Proper noun

Bruno m

  1. A male given name.

References

  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
  • Population Register of Latvia: Bruno was the only given name of 1104 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bruno m

  1. A male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Slovak

Proper noun

Bruno m

  1. A male given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Bruno

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Bruno.

bruno

bruno

See also: Bruno, bruño, bruñó, and brūno

Italian

Adjective

bruno m (feminine singular bruna, masculine plural bruni, feminine plural brune)

  1. (dark) brown

Derived terms

Noun

bruno m (plural bruni, feminine bruna)

  1. a dark-haired person

Portuguese

Etymology

From Frankish *brūn (brown, dark, shiny), possibly through an Italian intermediate.

Adjective

bruno m (feminine singular bruna, masculine plural brunos, feminine plural brunas, comparable)

  1. (dark) brown

Noun

bruno m (plural brunos, feminine bruna, feminine plural brunas)

  1. a dark-haired male or female
  2. a dark man or a brunette