brío

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese brio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Perhaps borrowed from Spanish brío, or directly from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *brīgos (“strength”), cognate with Welsh bri and Old Irish bríg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾio̝/

Noun

brío m (plural bríos)

1. vigour, strength, thrust
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 674:

     Et cõ grã brio deu hũa espadada ẽno olmo que estaua ante a jgleia de Sam Johan de Burgos

     With great strength he struck with the sword in an elm that was before the church of Saint John in Burgos

2. (dated) bravery, dignity, arrogance

Derived terms

• brioso

References

• “brio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “brio” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “brio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “brío” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan briu (“wild”), from Gaulish *brīgos (“strength”), from Proto-Celtic *brīgos (“importance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: brí‧o

Noun

brío m (plural bríos)

1. vigour, mettle

   Synonym: vigor

2. zest, zeal

   Synonyms: celo, ahínco, denuedo

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Italian: brio
  • → English: brio
  • → French: brio

References

• brío in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Further reading

• “brío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014