bres

From Vulgar Latin berciolum, diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta (compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”)). Cognate with French berceau.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾəs/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɛs/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾes/

bres m (plural bressos)

1. cradle (Northwestern, Northern Valencian, Balearic)
2. a big cradle-shaped basket (Northwestern)

• bressol, bressar

• “bres” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bres”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “bres” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bres” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Middle French breche, from Old French breche, bresche (“a breach, an opening, crack”), from Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”).

Cognate with Old High German brecha (“a break”). More at break.

• IPA^(key): /brɛs/

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• Hyphenation: bres
• Rhymes: -ɛs

bres f (plural bressen, diminutive bresje n)

1. breach, gap, opening

• voor iemand in de bres springen

bres

1. Alternative form of bras

bres

1. passive form of bre

bres

1. Soft mutation of pres.

Possibly relating to bräj, breid (“wide.”)

bres n

1. (anatomy) Crotch, crutch.
2. (zoology) Gland.

• bress

• bresa