Bruno

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.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹunoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -uːnəʊ

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.

• Bornu, Bourn, Broun, bourn, buron

• IPA^(key): [ˈbruno]

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Bruno m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Bruno

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbry.noː/

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• Hyphenation: Bru‧no
• Rhymes: -ynoː

Bruno m

1. a male given name

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

• IPA^(key): /bʁy.no/

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Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

• buron

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Bruno

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

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

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

Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

Bruno m or f by sense

1. a common surname, equivalent to English Brown

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

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).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.no]

Brūnō m sg (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Brūnōnis vīcus

Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

• Brunones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Bruno m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

• 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.

• Hyphenation: Bru‧no

Bruno m (plural Brunos, feminine Bruna, feminine plural Brunas)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

• IPA^(key): /brûno/

Brȕno m anim (Cyrillic spelling Бру̏но)

1. a male given name

• “Bruno”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Derived from German Bruno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrunɔ]

Bruno m pers

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

• Brunko

• “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, 2003–2025

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

Bruno m

1. a male given name

From German Bruno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʉːnʊ/

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Bruno c (genitive Brunos)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno