bravura
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹəˈvjʊəɹə/
- Rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Noun
Adjective
bravura (comparative more bravura, superlative most bravura)
- Highly showy; ostentatious.
- 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 4:
- Look closely, and the minute interconnectedness of her novels is a bravura achievement.
- 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus, Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, page 116:
- But that won't stop the breakout star of the A&E reality series Dallas Three Ways from delivering one of his bravura, impromptu mini-lectures on the subject of Murphy's history of homophobic stand-up comedy.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /braˈvu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: bra‧vù‧ra
Further reading
- bravura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /bɾaˈvu.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /bɾaˈvu.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /bɾɐˈvu.ɾɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɾɐˈbu.ɾɐ/ [bɾɐˈβu.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: bra‧vu‧ra
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bravura. By surface analysis, bravo + -ura.
Further reading
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɾaˈbuɾa/ [bɾaˈβ̞u.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: bra‧vu‧ra
Noun
bravura f (plural bravuras)
Further reading
- “bravura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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