brac

See also: BRAC, brać, brač, Brač, and braç

Irish

Etymology

Compare Latin bracchium (“arm”), French bras.

Noun

brac m (genitive singular braic, nominative plural bracanna)

(literary) arm
(anatomy) brachium
bracket

Declension

Declension of brac

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	brac	bracanna
Vocative	a bhraic	a bhracanna
Genitive	braic	bracanna
Dative	brac	bracanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an brac	na bracanna
Genitive	an bhraic	na mbracanna
Dative	leis an mbrac don bhrac	leis na bracanna

Derived terms

bracfhungas (“bracket fungus”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brac	bhrac	mbrac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

From Russian брак (brak), from Polish brak, ultimately from Middle Low German brak (“flaw, defect; breaking”); Compare modern German Bruch and English break.

Noun

brac n (plural bracuri)

defective goods, leftovers, waste
- (Can we date this quote?), M. Eminescu, Scrisoarea I:
  Pe când luna strălucește peste-a tomurilor bracuri
  Într-o clipă-l poartă gândul îndărăt cu mii de veacuri
  La-nceput pe când ființă nu era nici neființă
  Pe când totul era lipsă de viață și voință […]
  The moon looks in and sheds its beams a pile of ancient books upon
  He sets his mind to roving back across a thousand ages gone
  Into the time are things began, when being and not being still
  Did not exist to plague man’s mind, and there was neither life nor will […]
Synonyms: rest, rămășiță

Declension

Declension of brac

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) brac	bracul	(niște) bracuri	bracurile
genitive/dative	(unui) brac	bracului	(unor) bracuri	bracurilor
vocative	bracule		bracurilor

References

brac in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
https://www.gabrielditu.com/eminescu/satire_1.asp (for the translation of the quote)

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