Bruno (name)

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Bruno is a male first name and family name .

Origin and meaning

Bruno is a Latinized form of the old German personal name Brun . Its origin is not clearly established. Two very similar personal name stems come into question here: Brunja , "Brünne, Brustschutz", and Brun , "brown, bear". These two tribes "have always closely touched or mixed" and can no longer be distinguished in individual cases. The female form Bruna appears as the short form of Brunchildis (Brunhilde). If the name Bruno comes from Brun , it can be a short form of names with this element, for example Brunold (with the second part of the name in Old High German waltan , “ walten , rule”). In individual cases, however, Bruno can also go back to a single epithet "the brown one" and refer to the brown eyes or hair. Brun can also designate the bear (for example in animal fables), the word bear is derived from the Indo-European root * bher , from which our word brown comes. The Germanic peoples avoided the Indo-European name of the bear, as it is found in Greek arktos , for fear of calling the animal by naming its true name, and simply called the animal the brown one . So Bruno, like Bernhard, Wolfgang or Arnold, can be a theriophore name (ie derived from an animal name), about whose original meaning only guesses can be made. The proverbial power of the bear will certainly have played a role in this.

Name bearer

Rulers and clergy

First name

family name

stage name

  • Bruno Mars , born as Peter Gene Hernandez , (* 1985), American R&B singer and songwriter
  • Bruno S. , born Bruno Schleinstein , (1932-2010), German actor

Animals and fictional characters

  • JJ1 Bruno , nickname for the brown bear who caused a sensation in Bavaria and Tyrol in May / June 2006 and was shot
  • HB male Bruno , cartoon character who advertised British American Tobacco cigarettes from 1957 to 1984
  • "Bruno" or " Brüno ", a fictional character by the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Bruno  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno on behindthename.com (Engl.)
  2. ^ Henning Kaufmann: Altdeutsche Personalennamen, supplementary volume (on Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches Namenbuch, first volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966), p. 73
  3. ^ Henning Kaufmann: Altdeutsche Personalennamen, supplementary volume (on Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches Namenbuch, first volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966), p. 73
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer u. a .: Etymological Dictionary of German, Munich 1993, p. 97