bracchium

Latin

Alternative forms

• braccium, brāchium, brācium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbräkːʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrak.ki.um/, [ˈbräkːium]

Noun

bracchium n (genitive bracchiī or bracchī); second declension

1. forearm
2. arm (shoulder to fingers)
3. limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle)
4. branch (of a tree)
5. arm or branch of the sea
6. (military) earthwork
7. (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

• bracchiālis
• bracchiātus
• bracchiolum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: brats, bratsu
  • Istro-Romanian: bråț
  • Megleno-Romanian: braț
  • Romanian: braț
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: bracciu
  • Dalmatian: braz
  • Istriot: brasso
  • Italian: braccio
  • Neapolitan: vraccio
  • Sicilian: vrazzu
  • Venetan: brazso, braso
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: braç, brač
  • Ladin: brac
  • Romansch: bratsch
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Ligurian: bràsso
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: brès
  • Oïl:
    • Old French: bras
      • Bourguignon: brai
      • Champenois: brais
      • Franc-Comtois: brais
      • Middle French: bras
        • French: bras
      • Norman: bras
      • Walloon: bresse
  • Oc:
    • Catalan: braç
    • Old Occitan: braç
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: brazo
  • Asturian: brazu
  • Extremaduran: braçu
  • Leonese: brazu
  • Mirandese: braço
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: braço
    • Galician: brazo
    • Portuguese: braço
  • Old Spanish: braço
    • Ladino: braso
    • Spanish: brazo
• Island Romance:
  • Sardinian: baltzu, bartzu, braciu, bratzu, brassu

Borrowings:

• → 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.