bracchium
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbräkːʰiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbrak.ki.um/, [ˈbräkːium]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
bracchium n (genitive bracchiī or bracchī); second declension
- forearm
- arm (shoulder to fingers)
- limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle)
- branch (of a tree)
- arm or branch of the sea
- (military) earthwork
- (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
Descendants
- Aragonese: brazo
- Aromanian: brats, bratsu
- Asturian: brazu
- Breton: brec'h
- Catalan: braç
- Cornish: bregh
- Corsican: bracciu
- Dalmatian: braz
- English: brachium
- Esperanto: brako
- Extremaduran: braçu
- French: bras
- Friulian: braç, brač
- Galician: brazo
- Ido: brakio
- Istriot: brasso
- Istro-Romanian: bråţ
- Italian: braccio
- Leonese: brazu
- Ligurian: bràsso
- Mirandese: braço
- Mozarabic: بارْصه (bartsu)
- Occitan: braç
- Old Galician-Portuguese: braço
- Portuguese: braço
- Romanian: braț
- Romansch: bratsch
- Sardinian: baltzu, bartzu, braciu, bratzu, brassu
- Sicilian: vrazzu
- Spanish: brazo
- Tagalog: braso
- Venetian: brazso, braso
- Walloon: bresse
- Welsh: braich
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.