Bruno

See also: bruno, bruño, bruñó, brūno, and brůno

English

Etymology

From Italian, German etc continental European Bruno, name of medieval Italian and German saints and royalty, Latinized form of Old High German brūn (“brown”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. The surname is mostly borrowed from Italian Bruno. Doublet of Brown.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹunoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːnəʊ

Proper noun

Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)

1. (countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1983, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, One More Time.The Best of Mike Royko, University of Chicago Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 169:

     He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog.

2. (countable) A surname from Italian.
3. (folklore) A name for the bear.
4. A placename
   1. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada
   2. A municipality of Piedmont, Italy
   3. A city in Minnesota, United States
   4. A village in Nebraska, United States

Coordinate terms

• Brown
• Browne

 

Derived terms

• Brunonian

 

Translations

male given name

• Arabic: بْرُونُو m (brūnū)
• Bengali: ব্রুনো (brunō)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布魯諾／布鲁诺 (zh) (Bùlǔnuò)

• Czech: Bruno (cs) m
• Danish: Bruno c
• Esperanto: Bruno (eo)
• French: Bruno (fr) m
• German: Bruno (de) m
• Hindi: ब्रूनो m (brūno)
• Italian: Bruno (it) m
• Japanese: ブルーノ (Burūno)
• Korean: 브루노 (Beuruno)
• Latvian: Bruno m
• Marathi: ब्रुनो (bruno)
• Portuguese: Bruno (pt) m
• Russian: Бру́но (ru) m (Brúno)
• Slovak: Bruno m
• Spanish: Bruno (es) m
• Swedish: Bruno (sv) c

surname

• Arabic: بْرُونُو m or f (brūnū)
• Bengali: ব্রুনো (brunō)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布魯諾／布鲁诺 (zh) (Bùlǔnuò)

• French: Bruno (fr) m or f
• German: Bruno (de) m or f
• Hindi: ब्रूनो (brūno)
• Italian: Bruno (it) m or f
• Japanese: ブルーノ (Burūno)
• Korean: 브루노 (Beuruno)
• Marathi: ब्रुनो (bruno)
• Russian: Бру́но (ru) m or f (Brúno)

Anagrams

• Bornu, Bourn, Broun, bourn, buron

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbruno]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bruno m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Declension

Declension of Bruno (masculine animate in -o)

	singular	plural
nominative	Bruno	Brunové
genitive	Bruna	Brunů
dative	Brunovi, Brunu	Brunům
accusative	Bruna	Bruny
vocative	Bruno	Brunové
locative	Brunovi, Brunu	Brunech
instrumental	Brunem	Bruny

Danish

Proper noun

Bruno

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Dutch

Etymology

From Old High German [Term?]. Related to bruin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbry.noː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bru‧no
• Rhymes: -ynoː

Proper noun

Bruno m

1. a male given name

Estonian

Proper noun

Bruno (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁy.no/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Anagrams

• buron

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bruno

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Italian

Etymology

Saint's name of Germanic origin, cognate to English Bruno. The surname also originates as a nickname from bruno (“brown”), cognate with English Brown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbru.no/
• Rhymes: -uno
• Hyphenation: Brù‧no

Proper noun

Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Proper noun

Bruno m or f by sense

1. a common surname, equivalent to English Brown

Latin

Etymology

Latinisation of names of the form Brūn in Proto-Germanic and/or its descendant languages, deriving from the root *brūnaz (“brown”): Germanic Brūn + Latin -ō (suffix forming masculine personal names).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbruː.noː/, [ˈbruːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbru.no/, [ˈbruːno]

Proper noun

Brūnō m sg (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

1. a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Brown

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Brūnō
Genitive	Brūnōnis
Dative	Brūnōnī
Accusative	Brūnōnem
Ablative	Brūnōne
Vocative	Brūnō

Derived terms

• Brūnōnis vīcus

Noun

Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

1. any man named “Bruno” or an equivalent, a Bruno

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Brūnō	Brūnōnēs
Genitive	Brūnōnis	Brūnōnum
Dative	Brūnōnī	Brūnōnibus
Accusative	Brūnōnem	Brūnōnēs
Ablative	Brūnōne	Brūnōnibus
Vocative	Brūnō	Brūnōnēs

Further reading

• Brunones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. Cognate to German and English Bruno.

Proper noun

Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Bruno was the only given name of 1104 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾũ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾũ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾu.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾu.nu/

• Hyphenation: Bru‧no

Proper noun

Bruno m (plural Brunos)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from German Bruno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrunɔ]

Proper noun

Bruno m pers (genitive singular Bruna, nominative plural Brunovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Declension

Declension of Bruno

	singular	plural
nominative	Bruno	Brunovia
genitive	Bruna	Brunov
dative	Brunovi	Brunom
accusative	Bruna	Brunov
locative	Brunovi	Brunoch
instrumental	Brunom	Brunami

Derived terms

• Brunko

Further reading

• “Bruno”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾuno/ [ˈbɾu.no]
• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: Bru‧no

Proper noun

Bruno m

1. a male given name

Swedish

Etymology

From German Bruno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʉːnʊ/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Bruno c (genitive Brunos)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno