Ancient Greek

Noun

βρᾰχῑ́ων • ‎(brakhī́ōn) m ‎(genitive βρᾰχῑ́ονος); third declension

1. the (upper) arm, the shoulder
2. (poetic) a symbol of strength

Inflection

Derived terms

• πρυμνὸς βρᾰχῑ́ων ‎(prumnòs brakhī́ōn, “shoulder”)

Descendants

• English: tribrach
• Latin: bracchium

Adjective

βρᾰχίων • ‎(brakhíōn) m, f ‎(neuter βρᾰχίον); third declension

1. comparative degree of βρᾰχῠ́ς ‎(brakhús): shorter

Declension

References

• βρᾰχίων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press (noun)
• βρᾰχίων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press (adjective)
• βραχίων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βραχίων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βραχίων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βραχίων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βραχίων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1023”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «βραχίων» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 40
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill