Latin

Noun

brācae f pl ‎(genitive brācārum); first declension

1. (plural only) trousers; breeches, britches, pants

Usage notes

The only instance it is used in the singular is by Ovid, in his Tristia.

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• bracae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BRACAE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bracae”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• bracae in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bracae in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin