# Bruno
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈbɹunoʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːnəʊ

### Proper noun

Bruno (countable and uncountable, plural Brunos or Brunoes)
* (countable) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
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* (countable) A surname from Italian.
* (folklore) A name for the bear.
* A placename
** A town in Saskatchewan, Canada
** A municipality of Piedmont, Italy
** A city in Minnesota, United States
** A village in Nebraska, United States

#### Coordinate terms

* Brown
* Browne

#### Derived terms

* Brunonian

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Bornu, Bourn, Broun, bourn, buron

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbruno]
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bruno m anim
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

#### Declension
## Danish
### Proper noun

Bruno
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbry.noː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Bru‧no
* Rhymes: -ynoː

### Proper noun

Bruno m
* a male given name

## Estonian
### Proper noun

Bruno (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁy.no/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bruno m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

### Anagrams

* buron

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bruno
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbru.no/
* Rhymes: -uno
* Hyphenation: Brù‧no

### Proper noun

Bruno m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

### Proper noun

Bruno m or f by sense
* a common surname, equivalent to English Brown

### Further reading

* Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

## Latin
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbruː.noː/, [ˈbruːnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbru.no/, [ˈbruːno]

### Proper noun

Brūnō m sg (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension
* a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Brown

#### Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* Brūnōnis vīcus

### Noun

Brūnō m (genitive Brūnōnis); third declension
* any man named “Bruno” or an equivalent, a Bruno

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Further reading

* Brunones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Latvian
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Bruno m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

### References

* Klāvs Siliņš: Latviesu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
* Population Register of Latvia: Bruno was the only given name of 1104 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾũ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾũ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾu.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɾu.nu/
* Hyphenation: Bru‧no

### Proper noun

Bruno m (plural Brunos)
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brûno/

### Proper noun

Brȕno m (Cyrillic spelling Бру̏но)
* a male given name

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from German Bruno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbrunɔ]

### Proper noun

Bruno m pers
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno

#### Derived terms

* Brunko

### Further reading

* “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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɾuno/ [ˈbɾu.no]
* Rhymes: -uno
* Syllabification: Bru‧no

### Proper noun

Bruno m
* a male given name

## Swedish
### Etymology

From German Bruno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrʉːnʊ/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Bruno c (genitive Brunos)
* a male given name, equivalent to English Bruno