brasium

Latin

Alternative forms

• braseum

Etymology

Probably related to Old French brace (“malt”), from a Celtic source (see brasser).

Noun

brasium n (genitive brasiī or brasī); second declension

1. (Anglo-Latin) malt
   • circa 1066-1272, Saham manerium, in The Growth of English Industry and Commerce: Early and Middle Ages, page 164:

     ꝑ . III . dies firmā de frum̄to . melle 7 brasio . 7 be alijs / om̄ib;

     per iii dies firmam de frumento, melle et brasio et de aliis omnibus.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	brasium	brasia
Genitive	brasiī brasī1	brasiōrum
Dative	brasiō	brasiīs
Accusative	brasium	brasia
Ablative	brasiō	brasiīs
Vocative	brasium	brasia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• brasium 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)