bravo

From Italian bravo.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/, /bɹɑˈvoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/, /bɹɑːˈvəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ, Rhymes: -əʊ

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bravo (plural bravos or bravoes)

1. A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
   • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)‎:

     As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.

   • 1911, H. Rider Haggard, Red Eve‎:

     "Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 104:

     Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.

2. A shout of "bravo!"
   • 1907, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Boys and girls from Thackeray‎:

     There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.

3. The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

• (hired soldier): see Thesaurus:mercenary

bravo!

1. Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

   Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!

Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms brave (feminine) and bravi (masculine or mixed).

• See Thesaurus:well done

• bravissimo

bravo (third-person singular simple present bravos, present participle bravoing, simple past and past participle bravoed)

1. To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
   • 1910, May Agnes Fleming, The Baronet's Bride‎:

     "And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"

   • 1899, Richard Le Gallienne, Young Lives‎:

     Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.

From Italian bravo.

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.vo/

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bravo

1. bravo!, hear, hear!, well said!, well done!

bravo m (plural bravos)

1. (in the plural) applause, cheers
2. swordsman

• (2) spadassin

• bravache
• bravade
• brave
• bravement
• braver
• bravoure

• “bravo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaβo̝/

Borrowed from Italian bravo, or of the same origin.

bravo m (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas)

1. uncultivated, harsh, rough (when referring to a land)
   • 1334, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (eds. ), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 487:

     et nos dedes delle en cada ano terça do pan e do viño, e de lino e de liguma do feytuo, e do monte bravo que aromperdes

     and you'll give us each year a third of the grain and of the wine, of the flax, and of the pulses, and of the uncultivated lands that you could plough up

2. wild, spontaneous (when referring to a plant)
3. wild, untamed (when referring to an animal)
4. harsh, fierce
   • 1364, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 441:

     son ende quatro boys, dous bravos et dous massos

     there are four oxen: two are fierce and two are meek

5. strong (when referring to a beverage) or hot spicy
6. bold, valiant

• (wild): salvaxe
• (strong taste): forte
• (bold): afouto, arriscado, valente

• besta brava (“wild horse”)
• porco bravo (“wild pig”)
• faneca brava (“lesser weever”)

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

bravo!

1. bravo!

• “bravo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “bravo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bravo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bravo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Uncertain. Either from Provençal brau (“show-off”), from Gaulish *bragos (compare Middle Irish breagha (modern breá) 'fine', Breton braga 'to strut') or from Latin *bravus, from a fusion of prāvus and barbarus,[1] which was frequently found in local medieval Latin documentation with the meaning of "uncultivated". Or else misread from Latin brana,[2] from Old French brahaigne (“barren”) (see barren).[3] Or perhaps borrowed from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *hrawaz (“raw, uncooked”).[2] Or possibly from a root *bravus, from bravium. Borrowed into French and English as brave.

bravo (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravi, feminine plural brave) (superlative bravissimo)

1. (used before the noun) good, well-behaved
2. good, skilful, capable, clever, fine
3. good, obedient
4. (obsolete) brave, bold
5. (obsolete, of animals) wild, untamed
6. (obsolete, of places) harsh

• bravaccio
• bravamente
• bravare
• bravata
• bravazzo
• braveria
• bravino
• bravura

bravo! m (f brava!, m pl bravi!, f pl brave!)

1. well done!, good show!
2. (theater) bravo!

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾa.vu/
• Hyphenation: bra‧vo

From Old Portuguese bravo, either borrowed from Italian bravo or of the same origin.

bravo m (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas, comparable)

1. valiant, courageous
2. uneducated, uncivilized
3. furious, annoyed
4. prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric
5. rigorous, authoritarian
6. (of a person, or situation) difficult, unmanageable
7. (of an animal) undomesticated
8. (of a plant, or vegetable) spontaneous, weed
9. (of the land) uncultivated
10. (of the sea) stormy
11. (hypercorrect) Alternative form of brabo

• (courageous): valente, destemido, corajoso
• (uncivilized): bárbaro, rude, grosseiro
• (furious): furioso, irado, raivoso, enraivecido, brabo
• (bad-tempered): genioso, irritadiço, brabo
• (rigorous): rígido, rigoroso, severo, brabo
• (difficult): ruço, difícil, brabo
• (undomesticated animal): bravio, silvestre, brabo
• (spontaneous weed): espontâneo
• (uncultivated land): bravio, inculto
• (stormy sea): tempestuoso, brabo

• bravio
• bravura
• braveza
• coelho-bravo
• embravecer

• Portuguese: brabo

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

bravo!

1. bravo! well done!

Borrowed from Italian bravo, or of the same origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾabo/, [ˈbɾaβo]

bravo (feminine singular brava, masculine plural bravos, feminine plural bravas) (superlative bravísimo)

1. angry, furious
2. bold, courageous
3. skilful, capable, clever, fine
4. good, excellent
5. agitated (sea)

• (courageous): valiente
• (furious): fiero, salvaje (animal)
• (angry): enojado, enfadado,, mañoso

¡bravo!

1. (in general use) well done!, good show!
2. (at the theatre, etc) bravo!

• bravamente
• bravear
• bravero
• braveza
• bravío
• bravucón
• bravura
• desbravar
• embravecer