Bremse

See also: bremse

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʁɛmzə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmzə

Etymology 1

From Middle High German bremse, borrowed from Middle Low German premese (“twitch for horses”), from the verb pramen (“to clamp”), with further origin unclear.

Noun

Bremse f (genitive Bremse, plural Bremsen)

1. brake, device for causing deceleration
2. (archaic) any kind of clamp that restricts movement
   1. in particular, a twitch wherewith particularly in veterinary medicine body parts of a beast (face, testicles etc.) are pinched to perform surgical or similar operations

      Synonym: Kluppe

Declension

Declension of Bremse [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Bremse	die	Bremsen
genitive	einer	der	Bremse	der	Bremsen
dative	einer	der	Bremse	den	Bremsen
accusative	eine	die	Bremse	die	Bremsen

Derived terms

• Bremsbeläge
• bremsen
• Bremser
• Bremsrakete
• Bremsspur
• Bremsstrahlung
• Felgenbremse
• Rücktrittbremse
• Sattelbremse
• Schuldenbremse
• Spaßbremse

 

Descendants

• → Swedish: broms

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German brēmse, borrowed from Old Saxon brimissa, from *brummōn, from Proto-West Germanic *brummōn (“to buzz, drone”).

This form superseded High German Breme (now archaic), from Middle High German breme, from Old High German brema. The form brimissa did exist in Old High German, but both the phonetic development and the attestations prove that it is not the direct source of the modern word.

Noun

Bremse f (genitive Bremse, plural Bremsen)

1. horsefly, breezefly, gadfly (fly of the family Tabanidae)

Declension

Declension of Bremse [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Bremse	die	Bremsen
genitive	einer	der	Bremse	der	Bremsen
dative	einer	der	Bremse	den	Bremsen
accusative	eine	die	Bremse	die	Bremsen

Derived terms

• Viehbremse (species of horsefly)

Further reading

• “Bremse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bremse” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bremse” in Duden online
• “Bremse” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Bremse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de