Latin

Alternative forms

• brāchium

Noun

bracchium n ‎(genitive bracchiī); second declension

1. forearm
2. arm (shoulder to fingers)
3. limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle)
4. branch (of a tree)
5. arm or branch of the sea
6. (military) earthwork
7. (military) arm of a catapult

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• bracchiālis
• bracchiātus
• bracchiolum

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bracchium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.