Bremer

Bremer

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

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

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

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.

Bremer

1. A habitational surname from German.

• Bremer County

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bremer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 223.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʁeːmɐ/

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

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

   Synonym: Fischfrikadellenbrötchen

Bremer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Bremen

• Bremerhaven
• dreimal ist Bremer Recht

• bremisch
• Bremisch

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