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bras
bras
bras
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”): (compare Cornish bras (“big, great”), broas, and Welsh bras (“fat, broad, rich”)).
bras (comparative brasoc'h, superlative brasañ, exclamative brasat)
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).
bras
From Proto-Celtic *mratom. Cognate with Welsh brad and Irish brath
bras m (plural brasow)
bras m
Inherited from Middle French bras, from Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). Displaced Old French feminine noun brace, ultimately from the same Latin and Ancient Greek roots.
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bras m (plural bras)
bras n (genitive singular brass, no plural)
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).
bras (genitive singular masculine brais, genitive singular feminine braise, plural brasa, comparative braise)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | bras | bhras | brasa; bhrasa² | |
| Vocative | bhrais | brasa | ||
| Genitive | brase | brasa | bras | |
| Dative | bras; bhras¹ |
bhras; bhrais (archaic) |
brasa; bhrasa² | |
| Comparative | níos brase | |||
| Superlative | is brase | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
bras m (genitive singular brais, nominative plural brais)
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bras | bhras | mbras |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
From Old English bræs; further origin uncertain.
bras (uncountable)
bras
bras
From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
bras m (plural bras)
From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
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bras m (plural bras)
From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
bras oblique singular, m (oblique plural bras, nominative singular bras, nominative plural bras)
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas. Doublet of wĕas.
bras
bras n (plural brasuri)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) bras | brasul | (niște) brasuri | brasurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) bras | brasului | (unor) brasuri | brasurilor |
| vocative | brasule | brasurilor | ||
bras
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”). Cognate with Breton bras, Cornish bras, Irish bras.
bras (feminine singular bras, plural breision, equative brased, comparative brasach, superlative brasaf)
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| bras | fras | mras | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||