bracchium
Latin
Alternative forms
- brachium
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbrak.kʰi.um/, [ˈbrak.kʰi.ũ]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
bracchium n (genitive bracchiī); 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
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bracchium | bracchia |
| Genitive | bracchiī | bracchiōrum |
| Dative | bracchiō | bracchiīs |
| Accusative | bracchium | bracchia |
| Ablative | bracchiō | bracchiīs |
| Vocative | bracchium | bracchia |
Related terms
- bracchiālis
- bracchiātus
- bracchiolum
Descendants
- Aragonese: brazo
- Aromanian: brats, bratsu
- Asturian: brazu
- Breton: brec'h
- Catalan: braç
- Cornish: bregh
- Corsican: bracciu
- Dalmatian: braz
- English: brachium
- Esperanto: brako
- Extremaduran: braçu
- French: bras
- Friulian: braç, brač
- Galician: brazo
- Ido: brakio
- Istriot: brasso
- Istro-Romanian: bråţ
- Italian: braccio
- Leonese: brazu
- Ligurian: bràsso
- Mirandese: braço
- Mozarabic: bárço
- Occitan: braç
- Old Portuguese: braço
- Portuguese: braço
- Romanian: braț
- Romansch: bratsch
- Sardinian: baltzu, bartzu, braciu, bratzu, brassu
- Sicilian: vrazzu
- Spanish: brazo
- Tajik: braso
- Venetian: brazso, braso
- Walloon: bresse
- Welsh: braich
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