Bronzer

Part of Speech

verb

Difficulty Level

Translations

🇩🇪 dunkler werden , 🇪🇸 se volvió más oscura , 🇮🇹 diventare più scuro , 🇵🇹 tornar mais escuro , 🇨🇳 晒黑 , 🇯🇵 日焼けして肌がより暗くなる , 🇰🇷 태닝하다 , 🇸🇦 أصبح أكثر غامقًا , 🇮🇳 सूर्यास्त्र से धूप खाना

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Etymology

The verb **bronzer** is a 20‑century coinage formed by adding the French infinitive suffix *‑er* to the noun **bronze** (the metal). *Bronze* entered French from Italian *bronzo*, itself from the Ancient Greek *brontos* (“thunder”), and was borrowed into English as *bronze* (also a verb meaning “to give a bronze‑like colour”). Thus *bronzer* literally means “to give a bronze‑like (tan) colour” and first appeared in the early 20th century.

Synonyms

s’assombrir s’obscurcir se teinter se colorer tanner s’ombrer se pigmenter

Antonyms

blanchir éclaircir dépigmenter s'éclaircir palloriser