bracchium

Latin

Alternative forms

braccium, brāchium, brācium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbräkːʰiʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.ki.um/, [ˈbräkːium]
Audio (Ecclesiastical) (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
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
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

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