braca

• braga

From Latin brāca.

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

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, 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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbraː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbraː.ka]

brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• brācātus

• “braca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "braca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

braca

1. feminine singular of braco