brassière
French
noun
Definitions
- child's vest
- (nautical) life jacket
- (dated) brassiere, bra
Etymology
Inherited from Old French braciere derived from Latin bracchia, bracchium (arm, branch, limb) derived from Ancient Greek βραχίων (arm) suffix from French bras (arm).
Origin
French
bras
Gloss
arm
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
腕
Emoji
🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wonderbra English
- bra English
- brachio- English
- brachium English
- braless English
- bralette English
- brassiere English
- demibra English
- handbra English
- unbraed English
- wonderbra English
- *abbracchicāre Latin
- *bracium Latin
- bracchia Latin
- bracchialis Latin
- bracchiolum Latin
- bracchium Latin
- brachia Latin
- brachiatellum Latin
- brachio- Latin
- brachium Latin
- abbracciare Italian
- braccialetto Italian
- viola da braccio Italian
- arrière-bras French
- avant-bras French
- bras French
- bras de mer French
- brassard French
- brassée French
- бра Russian
- abrazar Spanish, Castilian
- βραχίων Ancient Greek
- *mréǵʰus Proto-Indo-European
- abraçar Portuguese
- ブラ Japanese
- ブラジャー Japanese
- brace Old French
- braciere Old French
- abraçar Catalan, Valencian
- abrazar Galician
- bra Cebuano
- braich Welsh
- braceleto Ido
- brakio Ido
- ဘရာစီယာ Burmese
- bras Middle French
- ბრა Georgian
- abraçar Occitan
- bratz Old Occitan
- abbrazzari Sicilian
- brad Volapük
- brec'h Breton
- bregh Cornish
- bràsso Ligurian
- abrasur Dalmatian
- bra Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lebra Mauritian Creole
- bracciu Corsican