braca

See also: braça, braća, and Braca

Italian

Alternative forms

• braga

Etymology

From Latin brāca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbra.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: brà‧ca

Noun

braca f (plural brache)

1. trouser leg
2. (in the plural) trousers, pants, breeches
3. harness

Related terms

• imbracare
• sbracarsi

 

Anagrams

• barca, cabra

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brāks, *brōks (“rump, hindquarters, crotch; leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrāg- (“rump, hock, hindquarters”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack, split”). Cognate with Latin suffrāgō (“hindquarters, hock, rump”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbraː.ka/, [ˈbräːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbra.ka/, [ˈbräːkä]

Noun

brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) trousers, breeches (not worn by the Romans)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	brāca	brācae
Genitive	brācae	brācārum
Dative	brācae	brācīs
Accusative	brācam	brācās
Ablative	brācā	brācīs
Vocative	brāca	brācae

Derived terms

• brācātus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: brace
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: braca
  • Sicilian: braca
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: brèga
  • Friulian: braghis
  • Ladin: brea
  • Ligurian: brâga
  • Lombard: braga
  • Piedmontese: braja
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: braya
  • Old French: braie, braiel
    • French: braie
    • → Middle English: brayle, brayell, braille, braell, brael, brayl, brail
      • English: brail
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: braga
  • Occitan: braga (several dialects)
    • Auvergnat: braja, esbraja
    • Limousin: braja, braia
    • Provençal: braia
    • Vivaro-Alpine: braia
  • → Old French: brague ⇒ braguette
    • Middle French: braguette
      • → English: bragget, bracket
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: bragas
    • Galician: braga
    • Portuguese: braga
  • Spanish: braga
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: brekë
  • → Basque: praka, fraka
  • → Old English: bræċċe, braccas
  • → Swedish: bracka

References

• “braca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• braca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Adjective

braca

1. feminine singular of braco