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brome

/bʁom/

noun, masculine/bʁom/

bromine

Related: bromate, bromique, bromure

From Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

noun, masculine/bʁom/plural: bromes

brome (plant)

Learned borrowing from New Latin bromus (= translingual Bromus (genus name)), from Ancient Greek βρόμος (brómos, “(wild) oat”).