/bʁav/
Translation
decent, good-hearted (before the noun); brave (after the noun)
Word origin
Borrowed in the sixteenth century from Italian bravo, but the older history is genuinely disputed and the two main accounts are set out below. English 'brave' and 'bravado' come through the same Italian and French route.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- bravo
- English cognates
- brave, bravado, bravo
Other proposed origins
- Most often traced to Latin barbarus ('foreign, wild'), with the sense moving from 'savage' to 'bold'. (barbarus)
- Others derive it from Latin pravus ('crooked, bad'), by way of a Vulgar Latin sense 'unruly'. (pravus)
Grammar
Examples
C' , .
He is a decent man, he helps everyone in the neighbourhood.
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A brave man does not back away from danger.
, guichet.
My good lady, you have come to the wrong counter.
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The brave soldiers received a medal.
dentiste.
She was very brave at the dentist's.
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