Noun: brossa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | brossa |
| Plural f | brosses |
Sample Sentences
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correu brossa (junk mail)
Nouns inflected like brossa
taquicàrdia,
indumentària,
histerectomia,
secada,
seguda,
segura,
segada,
segona,
sedera,
sembra,
savina,
safata,
sageta,
sagita,
sagnia,
sabata,
sabana,
sacada,
sambra,
sanefa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Uncertain
2. * Possibly of pre-Roman (Celtic) origin; compare Proto-Celtic *wroikos (“heather”).
3. * Possibly of Romance origin, from Old French broisse, from Vulgar Latin *bruscia (“shoots of a plant”), from Latin bruscum (“knot on a maple tree”).
4. * Or a Germanic language (Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌾𐌰 (*brukja), presumably related to Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“fissure, breach”)).
5. Also compare Spanish brocha (“paintbrush”). See: Latin Nouns '
bruscum', Spanish Nouns '
brocha'.
Verbs referencing "brossa"
French Nouns
brosse.
Translations