brace – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of brace

Noun: brace
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fbrace
Plural fbraci

Sample Sentences

  • Carne alla brace (grilled meat)
  • Avevamo trovato legna e carbone, e anche brace proveniente dalle baracche bruciate. (We had found wood and charcoal, and also embers coming from the burned shacks.) [1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 201:]

Etymology

1. Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”).
2. Cognate with French braise (“embers”), Swedish brasa (“to roast”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). Most probably cognate to Sanskrit भ्रज (bhrája, “fire”). See: French Nouns 'braise', Swedish Nouns 'brasa', Icelandic Nouns 'brasa'.

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