brame
English
Etymology
From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.
Noun
brame (uncountable)
- (obsolete) intense passion or emotion; vexation
- Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52
- ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.
- Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Amber, amber, bemar, bream, embar
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
brame
- first-person singular present indicative of bramer
- third-person singular present indicative of bramer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bramer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bramer
- second-person singular imperative of bramer
Anagrams
- ambre, Ambre, ambré
Italian
Noun
brame f
- plural of brama
Anagrams
- ambre
- Brema
Spanish
Verb
brame
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bramar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bramar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bramar.