bracchium
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbräkːʰiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbrak.ki.um/, [ˈbräkːium]
Audio (Ecclesiastical) (file)
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Aragonese: brazo
- Aromanian: brats, bratsu
- Asturian: brazu
- Catalan: braç
- Corsican: bracciu
- Dalmatian: braz
- Extremaduran: braçu
- Old French: bras
- Friulian: braç, brač
- Istriot: brasso
- Istro-Romanian: bråț
- Italian: braccio
- Leonese: brazu
- Ligurian: bràsso
- Mirandese: braço
- Old Occitan: braç
- Old Galician-Portuguese: braço
- Romanian: braț
- Romansch: bratsch
- Sardinian: baltzu, bartzu, braciu, bratzu, brassu
- Sicilian: vrazzu
- Old Spanish: braço
- Venetian: brazso, braso
- Walloon: bresse
- → Proto-Brythonic: *brėx (see there for further descendants)
- → English: brachium
- → Esperanto: brako
- → Ido: brakio
- → Irish: brac
ReferencesEdit
- “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