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braço

See also: braco

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”).

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Noun edit

braço m (plural braços)

  1. arm

Descendants edit

  • Galician: brazo
  • Portuguese: braço

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin brachium, bracchium (“forearm, arm”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”).

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Noun edit

braço m (plural braços)

  1. arm
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r:
      Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol ⁊ echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço. E ſaludolo. ⁊ omillos eſau. E toda ſu cõpãna de iacob.
      Esau ran to meet his brother, and he embraced him and put his arm over his neck. And he greeted him and bowed before Esau, and so too all of Jacob's company.

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Portuguese edit

 braço on Portuguese Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese braço, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Compare Galician brazo, Spanish brazo, Catalan braç, Romanian braț, and Italian braccio.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -asu
  • Hyphenation: bra‧ço
  • Audio (Oporto, Portugal)(file)

Noun edit

braço m (plural braços)

  2. arm (upper limb)
  4. (specifically) upper arm; brachium (part of the arm between the elbow and shoulder)
  6. (loosely) any limb or tentacle
  8. arm (part of an object designed to be used with the arm)
    2. arm; sleeve (part of an item of clothing for the upper body that goes around the arm)
    4. arm (part of a furniture for sitting that one can rest one’s arm on)
  10. arm (anything that extends out from another thing)
    2. (music) neck (extended part of a stringed instrument)
    4. (geography) arm; inlet (small part of a body of water extending out from the main body)
    6. (geography) a smaller range extending from a mountain range
    8. (mechanics) the part of a lever on either side of the fulcrum
    10. (genetics) arm (part of a chromosome extending from the centromere)
    12. (astronomy) arm (outer part of a spiral galaxy)
  12. arm (person employed to do manual labour)
  14. (figurative) arm; might; power

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