breme

Alternative forms

• brim

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”), from *bʰrem- (“to make noise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːm/
• 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 fouȝten 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.

     Mallory, "Le Morte d'Arthur":

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

   • (Can we date this quote?), Drayton;

     From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

Anagrams

• EBMer, Ember, berme, ember

Noun

breme m (plural bremi)

1. (zoology, ichthyology) bream (of genus Abramis)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brōmiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbreːme/

Adjective

brēme

1. (poetic) famous, renowned

Alternative forms

• (Ikavian): brime

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bermę.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

brȅme n (Cyrillic spelling бре̏ме)

1. burden, load