## Etymology
From Old French brut ('coarse, brutal'), from Latin brutus ('heavy, dull, irrational, senseless'), originally an Oscan word meaning 'heavy'.

## AI Etymology
Brute comes from Old French brut ('coarse, brutal'), from Latin brutus ('heavy, dull, irrational, senseless'), originally an Oscan word meaning 'heavy'. The historical trail runs through brut in Old French and brutus in Latin. Used as a noun and adjective, brute now means "a savage or cruel person; relying on raw force rather than reason", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as brutish, brutal, and brutify and related forms such as brutal and brutality. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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