bracchium

Latin

Alternative forms

• braccium, brāchium, brācium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbräkːʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.ki.um/, [ˈbräkːium]

Noun

bracchium n (genitive bracchiī or bracchī); second declension

1. forearm
2. arm (shoulder to fingers)
3. limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle)
4. branch (of a tree)
5. arm or branch of the sea
6. (military) earthwork
7. (military) arm of a catapult

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bracchium	bracchia
Genitive	bracchiī bracchī1	bracchiōrum
Dative	bracchiō	bracchiīs
Accusative	bracchium	bracchia
Ablative	bracchiō	bracchiīs
Vocative	bracchium	bracchia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• bracchiālis
• bracchiātus
• bracchiolum

Descendants

• Aragonese: brazo
• Aromanian: brats, bratsu
• Asturian: brazu
• Catalan: braç
• Corsican: bracciu
• Dalmatian: braz
• Extremaduran: braçu
• Old French: bras
  • Middle French: bras
    • French: bras
  • Norman: bras
• Friulian: braç, brač
• Istriot: brasso
• Istro-Romanian: bråț
• Italian: braccio
• Leonese: brazu
• Ligurian: bràsso
• Mirandese: braço
• Neapolitan: vraccio
• Old Occitan: braç
• Old Galician-Portuguese: braço
  • Galician: brazo
  • Portuguese: braço
• Romanian: braț
• Romansch: bratsch
• Sardinian: baltzu, bartzu, braciu, bratzu, brassu
• Sicilian: vrazzu
• Old Spanish: braço
  • Ladino: braso
  • Spanish: brazo
• Venetian: brazso, braso
• Walloon: bresse
• → Proto-Brythonic: *brėx (see there for further descendants)
• → English: brachium
• → Esperanto: brako
• → Ido: brakio
• → Irish: brac

References

• “bracchium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bracchium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bracchium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.