braca

See also: braça, braća, and Braca

Italian

braca f (plural brache)

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”).

brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension

Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: brace
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: braca
- Sicilian: vraca
Padanian:
- Emilian: brèga
- Friulian: braghis
- Ladin: brea
- Ligurian: brâga
- Lombard: braga
- Piedmontese: braja
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: braya
- Old French: braie, braiel
  - French: braie
  - → Middle English: brayle, brayell, braille, braell, brael, brayl, brail
    - English: brail
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: braga
- Occitan: braga (several dialects)
  - Auvergnat: braja, esbraja
  - Limousin: braja, braia
  - Provençal: braia
  - Vivaro-Alpine: braia
- → Old French: brague ⇒ braguette
  - Middle French: braguette
    - → English: bragget, bracket
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bragas
  - Galician: braga
  - Portuguese: braga
- Spanish: braga
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: brekë
- → Basque: praka, fraka
- → Koine Greek: βράκες (brákes), βράκαι (brákai) (plurals)
  - > Byzantine Greek: βράκα (bráka) (inherited) (singular)
    - > Greek: βράκα (vráka) (inherited)
- → Old English: bræċċe, braccas
- → Swedish: bracka

“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)

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