Bremer

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Translingual

Proper noun

Bremer

  1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Hans Bremer (fl. 1947).

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Bremer, equivalent to Brem(en) +‎ -er.

Noun

Bremer (plural Bremers)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Bremen, Germany.
    • 2009, Lynn K. Nyhart, “Biological Groups, Nature, and Culture in the Museum”, in Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 258:
      Tobacco, cotton, and sugar from the tropics were all imported in raw form and turned into cigars, cloth, and processed sugar in Bremen and its surrounding villages. Bremers sought to promote their city's role as a business center based on imports.

Proper noun

Bremer

  1. A habitational surname from German.

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German

Etymology

From Bremen +‎ -er. The ending -en is sometimes lost before the suffix -er without there being a clear rule (compare -hausen, which makes -häuser or -hausener). The use for a sandwich is a pun on Hamburger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʁeːmɐ/
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Noun

Bremer m (strong, genitive Bremers, plural Bremer, feminine Bremerin)

  1. Bremer (person)
  2. fishburger, a sandwich filled with a fishcake
    Synonym: Fischfrikadellenbrötchen

Declension

Adjective

Bremer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

  1. (relational) of Bremen

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