brossa
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain
- Possibly of pre-Roman (Celtic) origin; compare Proto-Celtic *wroikos (“heather”).
- Possibly of Romance origin, from Old French broisse, from Vulgar Latin *bruscia (“shoots of a plant”), from Latin bruscum (“knot on a maple tree”).[1]
- Or a Germanic language (Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌾𐌰 (*brukja), presumably related to Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“fissure, breach”)).[2]
Also compare Spanish brocha (“paintbrush”).
Noun
[edit]brossa f (plural brosses)
- leaf litter
- brush, brushwood, scrub
- speck
- litter, rubbish, trash
- Synonym: escombraries
- correu brossa ― junk mail
- (computing, colloquial) bug
- Synonym: error
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ “broza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Further reading
[edit]- “brossa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “brossa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “brossa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]brossa f (plural brosses)
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]brossa
- inflection of brossar:
French
[edit]Verb
[edit]brossa
- third-person singular past historic of brosser
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