Central Franconian

Proper noun

Breme

1. (Kölsch) Bremen

English

Alternative forms

• brim

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

• ember

Italian

Noun

breme m ‎(plural bremi)

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

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brōmiz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

brēme

1. (poetic) famous, renowned

Declension

Descendants

• brim

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Croatia): brjȅme
• (Ikavian): brime
• (obsolete): brijème

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bermę.

Noun

brȅme n ‎(Cyrillic spelling бре̏ме)

1. burden, load

Declension

Derived terms

• bremènit