braço m (plural braços, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of brazo

• “braço” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾa.t͡so/

braço m (plural braços)

1. arm
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 222 (facsimile):

     […] pelo braço lle sayu / uiua aquela aranna.

     […] that spider emerged alive from his arm.

• Galician: brazo
• Portuguese: braço

From Latin brachium, bracchium (“forearm, arm”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾat͡so/

braço m (plural braços)

1. arm
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r:

     Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol ⁊ echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço. E ſaludolo. ⁊ omillos eſau. E toda ſu cõpãna de iacob.

     Esau ran to meet his brother, and he embraced him and put his arm over his neck. And he greeted him and bowed before Esau, and so too all of Jacob's company.

• abraçar (verb)

• Ladino: braso
• Spanish: brazo

 braço on Portuguese Wikipedia

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membro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese braço, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “arm”), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Compare Galician brazo, Spanish brazo, Catalan braç, Romanian braț, and Italian braccio.

• Rhymes: -asu
• Hyphenation: bra‧ço

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braço m (plural braços)

2. arm (upper limb)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 100:

     Hermione beliscou o braço do amigo com força.

     Hermione pinched her friend's arm with force.

4. (specifically) upper arm; brachium (part of the arm between the elbow and shoulder)
6. (loosely) any limb or tentacle
8. arm (part of an object designed to be used with the arm)
   2. arm; sleeve (part of an item of clothing for the upper body that goes around the arm)
   4. arm (part of a furniture for sitting that one can rest one’s arm on)
10. arm (anything that extends out from another thing)
    2. (music) neck (extended part of a stringed instrument)
    4. (geography) arm; inlet (small part of a body of water extending out from the main body)
    6. (geography) a smaller range extending from a mountain range
    8. (mechanics) the part of a lever on either side of the fulcrum
    10. (genetics) arm (part of a chromosome extending from the centromere)
    12. (astronomy) arm (outer part of a spiral galaxy)
12. arm (person employed to do manual labour)
14. (figurative) arm; might; power

• (limb): membro
• (sleeve): manga
• (power): poder

• bracinho (diminutive)
• bração (augmentative)
• antebraço
• braçadeira
• braçal
• braçudo

• abraçar
• braça
• braquial

• “braço” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “braço”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “braço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024