braco

See also: braço and Braco

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan brac, bracon, from Proto-Germanic *brakko (“setter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”). Related to Old High German bracchio.

Noun

braco m (plural bracos)

1. pointer (dog)
2. moo (the sound a cow makes)

Adjective

braco (feminine braca, masculine plural bracos, feminine plural bracas)

1. pug-nosed

References

• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “braco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Istriot

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brakko (“setter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”).

Noun

braco m

1. hound, gundog, bloodhound

References

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 130
• Cergna, Sandro (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbra.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: brà‧co

Verb

braco

1. first-person singular present indicative of bracare

Anagrams

• cabro, cabrò, carbo-, cobra, corba

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan brac, bracon, from Proto-Germanic *brakko (“setter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”). Related to Old High German bracchio.

Adjective

braco (feminine braca, masculine plural bracos, feminine plural bracas)

1. pug-nosed

Noun

braco m (plural bracos)

1. pointer

Hyponyms

• braco alemán de pelo corto (“German Shorthaired Pointer”)
• braco alemán de pelo duro (“German Wirehaired Pointer”)
• braco americano (“American Pointer”)
• braco de Ariège (“Ariege Pointer, Braque de l'Ariège”)
• braco de Auvernia (“Auvergne Pointer”)
• braco de Borbón (“Braque du Bourbonnais, Bourbonnais Pointer”)
• braco de Saint Germain (“St. Germain Pointing Dog, Braque Saint-Germain”)
• braco de Weimar (“Weimaraner”)
• braco francés (“Braque Francais, French Pointing Dog”)
• braco italiano (“Bracco, Italian Pointer, Bracco Italiano”)
• braco tirolés (“Tyrolean Hound, Tyrolean Bracke”)

Further reading

• “braco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025