breakcore

English

Etymology

From break + -core.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkˌkɔːɹ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkkɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: break‧core
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Noun

breakcore (uncountable)

1. (music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".
   • 2008, SPIN, volume 24, number 2, page 93:

     The head-on collision between DJ Ricky Rabbit's fractured breakcore and MC Vulture Voltaire's fuming invective is a spectacle of almost physical impossibility, like trying to rap along to an earthquake while getting tased […]

   • 2008, Marc Masters, Weasel Walter, Rob Young, No Wave:

     Where breakcore picks up on rave's daftness, dubstep fixates on its darkness, sometimes to a shlocky degree […]

Translations

musical style

• French: breakcore (fr)
• German: Breakcore m
• Italian: breakcore
• Spanish: breakcore

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English breakcore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛk.kɔʁ/, /bʁɛjk.kɔʁ/

Noun

breakcore m or f (uncountable)

1. (music) breakcore

   Hypernym: techno hardcore

Italian

Noun

breakcore m or f (uncountable)

1. (music) breakcore

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English breakcore.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kiˈkɔʁ/ [ˌbɾeɪ̯.kiˈkɔh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kiˈkɔʁ/ [ˌbɾeɪ̯.kiˈkɔh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kiˈkɔɾ/ [ˌbɾeɪ̯.kiˈkɔɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kiˈkɔʁ/ [ˌbɾeɪ̯.kiˈkɔχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kiˈkɔɻ/ [ˌbɾeɪ̯.kiˈkɔɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾɐj.kɨˈkɔɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾɐj.kɨˈkɔɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kɨˈkɔɾ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾej.kɨˈkɔɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɾe.kɨˈkɔ.ɾi/

• Rhymes: -ɔɾ

Noun

breakcore m (uncountable)

1. (music) breakcore
   • 2020 January 18, Sónia Felizardo, “Igorrr lançam Spirituality and Distortion em março [Igorrr release “Spirituality and Distortion” in March]”, in Threshold Magazine‎^[1], Portugal, archived from the original on 3 August 2020:

     O projeto – que se tornou internacionalmente aclamado por combinar estilos musicais altamente díspares que vão do black metal ao breakcore, com passagens pela música barroca e clássica de forma não convencional, imprevisível e emotiva – regressa agora com um disco de catorze temas que proporcionará ao ouvinte toda uma viagem ampla no espectro auditivo e emotivo.

     The project – which became acclaimed worldwide for combining completely disparate musical styles that go from black metal to breakcore, passing by Baroque and classical music in a noncoventional, unpredictable and emotive way – now returns in a disc with 14 themes that will provide a wide trip trhough sound and emotion spectres for its listeners.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰrégeti

Proto-Germanic *brekaną

Proto-West Germanic *brekan

Old English brecan

Middle English breken

English break

Old English of-

Old English dūne

Old English ofdūne

Old English adūne

Old English dūne

Middle English doun

English down

English break downdeverb.

English breakdownclip.

English break

Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Proto-Indo-European *-yos

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī)

Old English heard

Middle English hard

English hard

Middle English core

English core

English hardcorebf.

English -core

English breakcoreubor.

Spanish breakcore

Unadapted borrowing from English breakcore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾeiɡkoɾ/ [ˈbɾei̯ɣ̞.koɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eiɡkoɾ
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾeikoɾ/ [ˈbɾei̯.koɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eikoɾ
• Syllabification: break‧core

Noun

breakcore m or f (uncountable)

1. (music) breakcore

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.