braca

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See also: braça, braća, and Braca

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin brāca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbra.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: brà‧ca

Noun

braca f (plural brache)

  1. trouser leg
  2. (in the plural) trousers, pants, breeches
  3. harness

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brāks, *brōks (“rump, hindquarters, crotch; leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrāg- (“rump, hock, hindquarters”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack, split”). Cognate with Latin suffrāgō (“hindquarters, hock, rump”).

Pronunciation

Noun

brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) trousers, breeches (not worn by the Romans)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brāca brācae
Genitive brācae brācārum
Dative brācae brācīs
Accusative brācam brācās
Ablative brācā brācīs
Vocative brāca brācae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “braca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • braca 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)

Spanish

Adjective

braca

  1. feminine singular of braco
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