brome

• IPA^(key): /bɹəʊm/

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• Rhymes: -əʊm

From the genus name, New Latin Bromus, from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “oat, wild oat”).

brome (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

2. Any grass of the genus Bromus.

• bromegrass

• cheat grass, cheatgrass

From French brome, coined from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”). Doublet of bromus.

brome (uncountable)

2. (obsolete) bromine

• bromine (see there for translations and more cognates)

• B-more, Bomer, omber, ombre

• IPA^(key): /bʁom/

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From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

brome m (uncountable)

2. bromine

• bromate
• bromique
• bromure

Learned borrowing from New Latin bromus (= translingual Bromus (genus name)), from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “(wild) oat”).

brome m (countable and uncountable, plural bromes)

2. brome (plant)

• “brome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• ombre, ombré

brome

1. vocative singular of bromos

brome

1. alternative form of brom