Italian: topographic name from medieval Latin braida
‘grassy meadow’, ‘flat grassland adjoining a settlement’, or a
habitational name from any of the places named with this word, such as
the districts (now suburbs) of Genoa, Milan, Mantua, and Brescia
called Breda or Brera.Dutch: habitational name from
the city of this name in North Brabant.
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