brace
Middle English
/ˈbraːs(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Vambrace; armour which protects the arm.
- A cord or brace for fastening or attaching things to something.
- A group or set of two dogs or canines.
- Wood used as a buttress or support for building.
- (rare) A support or buttress used in other applications.
- (rare) A kind of riding equipment or horse tack.
- (rare) A peninsula; a cape or slice of land jutting into the sea.
- (rare) A perch unit of measure
- (rare) A point of a cross or rood.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French brace (arm, malt) derived from Latin bracchia.
Origin
Latin
bracchia
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- armbrace English
- brace English
- braceable English
- braceless English
- bracer English
- bracest English
- braceth English
- counterbrace English
- embrace English
- forebrace English
- mainbrace English
- neckbrace English
- overbrace English
- rebrace English
- rerebrace English
- thoroughbrace English
- unbrace English
- underbrace English
- vambrace English
- bracchia Latin
- bracchium Latin
- brachia Latin
- avant Middle English
- bracer Middle English
- bras Middle English
- brase Middle English
- brasyng Middle English
- rere Middle English
- rerebrace Middle English
- vambrace Middle English
- brace Old French
- braceure Old French
- braciere Old French
- vambras xno
- boresy Malagasy