brocard

See also: Brocard

English

WOTD – 18 June 2007

Etymology

From French brocard, cognate with Medieval Latin brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a collection of canonical laws written by the bishop Burchard of Worms.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊkəd/, /ˈbɹəʊkɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊkɚd/, /ˈbɹoʊkɑːd/

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• Homophone: brokered

Noun

brocard (plural brocards)

1. (law) A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.
   • 1860, “The Journal of Jurisprudence”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IV, Edinburgh, page 414:

     The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.”

   • 1853, Samuel Owen, “The New York Legal Observer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume XI, pages 73–4:

     Blackstone, with a like tenderness of conscience, endeavors to withdraw a single case, a sale of provisions, from the old brocard caveat emptor, and tells us that in such a contract there is a warranty that the provisions are wholesome.

Translations

A legal principle usually expressed in Latin

• French: brocard (fr) m
• German: Rechtssprichwort n

French

Etymology

Old French broquer. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.kaʁ/

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Noun

brocard m (plural brocards)

1. mockery, ridicule

   Synonyms: moquerie, raillerie

   • 1918, Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎^[1], part 1:

     Sauf chez les Verdurin qui s’étaient engoués de lui, l’air hésitant de Cottard, sa timidité, son amabilité excessives, lui avaient, dans sa jeunesse, valu de perpétuels brocards.

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2. (law) brocard

Derived terms

• brocarder

Further reading

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

Romanian

Noun

brocard n (plural brocarduri)

1. Obsolete form of brocart.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	brocard	brocardul		brocarduri	brocardurile
genitive-dative	brocard	brocardului		brocarduri	brocardurilor
vocative	brocardule			brocardurilor

References

• brocard in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN