bracchium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === braccium, brāchium, brācium === Etymology === From Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbrak.kʰi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbrak.ki.um] === Noun === bracchium n (genitive bracchiī or bracchī); second declension forearm arm (shoulder to fingers) limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle) branch (of a tree) arm or branch of the sea (military) earthwork (military) arm of a catapult ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== bracchiālis bracchiātus bracchiolum ==== Descendants ==== Borrowings: === References === “bracchium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bracchium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “bracchium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.