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brachia

brachia is a Latin form of bracchium, meaning “arm, forearm”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 87 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.56.4: vadoque per equites invento pro rei necessitate opportuno, ut brachia modo atque humeri ad sustinenda arma liberi ab aqua esse possent, disposito equitatu qui vim fluminis refringeret, atque hostibus primo aspectu perturbatis,

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.305: Brachia saltantis, vocem mirare canentis,

All forms of bracchium (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.