braca

• braga

From Latin brāca.

braca f (plural brache)

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

• barca, cabra

Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brāks, *brōks (“rump, hindquarters, 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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbraː.ka/

brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension

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

First declension.

• brācātus

• Italian: braca
• Old French: braie, braiel
  • Middle French: braie
    • French: braie
  • → Middle English: brayle
    • English: bray, brail
• Old Occitan: braga
  • Catalan: braga
  • Occitan: braga
  • → Old French: brague
    • ⇒ Old French: braguette
      • Middle French: braguette
        • → English: bragget, bracket
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: braga
  • Portuguese: braga
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: braga
• Romanian: brace
• → Albanian: brekë
• → Swedish: bracka
• Ladin: brea

• 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, 1883–1887)

braca

1. Feminine singular of adjective braco.