branca

See also: Branca and brâncă

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin branca, possibly of Gaulish or other pre-Roman origin. Compare Occitan branca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾaŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɾaŋ.ka]

• Audio:

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Noun

branca f (plural branques)

1. branch

Derived terms

• branc
• brancal
• brancam
• brancar
• brancatge
• brancó

Further reading

• “branca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “branca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaŋka/ [ˈbɾɑŋ.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -aŋka
• Hyphenation: bran‧ca

Adjective

branca f sg

1. feminine singular of branco

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin branca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbran.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: bràn‧ca

Noun

branca f (plural branche)

1. claw (of a cat etc.)
2. talon (of a bird)
3. branch (of knowledge etc.)
4. (anatomy) branch
5. (in the plural) clutches

Derived terms

• branco
• sbrancare

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پرانقه (pranka), پرانغه (pranga)
  • Turkish: pranga
  • → Albanian: pranga
  • → Armenian: փըռանկա (pʻəṙanka) — Constantinople
  • → Macedonian: пранга (pranga)

Further reading

• branca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂ (from which Proto-Balto-Slavic *ránkāˀ (“hand, arm”)). Possibly influenced by bracchium (“forearm; arm; limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle); branch (of a tree)”).

Noun

branca f (genitive brancae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. paw, foot

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	branca	brancae
genitive	brancae	brancārum
dative	brancae	brancīs
accusative	brancam	brancās
ablative	brancā	brancīs
vocative	branca	brancae

Descendants

• Catalan: branca
• English: branch
• Old French: branche (“branch”)
  • Bourguignon: brainche
  • Champenois: brainche (Troyen), brainte (Rémois)
  • Franc-Comtois: braintche
  • French: branche
  • Lorrain: brainche
  • Norman: braunque (Continental Normandy), branque (Jèrriais), brànque (Guernésiais)
  • Picard: branke
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: branche
  • → Middle English: braunche
• German: Pranke
• Italian: branca
• Occitan: branca
• Romanian: brâncă (“hand”)
• Spanish: branca

References

• "branca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin branca. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): [ˈbɾaŋko]

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Noun

branca f (plural brancas)

1. (Languedoc, Provençal) branch

Alternative forms

• brancha (Limousin)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃kɐ
• Homophone: Branca
• Hyphenation: bran‧ca

Adjective

branca

1. feminine singular of branco

Noun

branca f (plural brancas)

1. brain freeze (failure to remember something)