brume means mist, fog, vapour. It carries an Arena rating of 1706, earned across 31 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, brume ranks #471 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #691 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,253 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #2,551 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
brume is pronounced /bɹuːm/.
Why “brume” is a great word
BRUME — [Noun] A light, damp mist or vapour, an atmospheric veil that obscures without fully concealing. From French brume ("fog"), from Old Occitan bruma, from Latin brūma ("winter, winter solstice"), carrying the chill and diffused light of the shortest days. Unlike "fog" (which descends as a dense, obliterating blanket) or "haze" (which hangs as a dry, particulate pall), brume is a delicate, aqueous suspension. It is the ghost of last night's rain rising from a sun-warmed field at dawn, the spectral breath over a morning river, the cool bloom on a windowpane before a drop forms—a transient state where the world is gently released from the tyranny of sharp definition.
Etymology
Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
noun
- Mist, fog, vapour.e.g.“For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.” — 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
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