brandir

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *brandīre, from *brandus, from Frankish *brand.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bɾənˈdi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bɾanˈdiɾ]

brandir (first-person singular present brandeixo, first-person singular preterite brandí, past participle brandit)

1. synonym of brandar

• brandar

• “brandir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “brandir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “brandir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “brandir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French and Old French brandir.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.diʁ/

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brandir

1. to brandish (a weapon)

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• → Spanish: blandir

• “brandir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese brandir (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from either Old French brandir or Old Occitan brandir.

• IPA^(key): /bɾanˈdiɾ/ [bɾan̪ˈd̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: bran‧dir

brandir (first-person singular present brando, first-person singular preterite brandín, past participle brandido)
brandir (first-person singular present brando, first-person singular preterite brandim or brandi, past participle brandido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to brandish (to move a weapon)

• brandear (“to wave, wag”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “brandir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brandir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “brandir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “brandir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “brandir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Occitan brandir, from Vulgar Latin *brandiō, from *brandus, from Frankish *brand.

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brandir

1. to brandish (a weapon)

From Vulgar Latin *brandus and ultimately of Germanic origin.

brandir

1. to brandish (a weapon)

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: brandir
  • French: brandir
• → Middle English: braundischen, braundishen
  • English: brandish

Borrowed from Old Occitan brandir.^[1]

• Hyphenation: bran‧dir

brandir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present brande, first-person singular preterite brandi, past participle brandido)

1. (transitive) to brandish (to move a weapon)