Brontë

See also: Bronte

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”), used as a rendering of Prunty, an Anglicization of the Irish Ó Proinntigh (“descendant of a person named Proinnteach (“Generous”)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒnti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑnti/
• Rhymes: -ɒnti
• Hyphenation: Bron‧të

Proper noun

Brontë (plural Brontës)

1. A surname from Irish.
   • 2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-05:

     An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Anagrams

• Berton, Breton, betorn