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brachiate<\/strong>, adjective = having widely divergent paired branches; verb = to swing by the arms from one hold to the next<\/p>\n Origin<\/strong>: from Latin bracchi\u0101tus<\/em> – with armlike branches.<\/p>\n Here’s another interesting word from Richard Dawkins’ “The Ancestor’s Tale” – he mentions it while discussion the astounding acrobatic abilities of gibbons, and speculating whether our evolutionary ancestors were brachiators.<\/p>\n Related words<\/strong> It’s also interesting to see how the Latin word bracchium<\/em> has changed in Latin’s daughter languages:<\/p>\n Italian – braccio The Welsh word for arm, braich, also appears to come from the same root.<\/p>\n The English word arm comes from Old English, and is related to the German Arm<\/em>, Old Norse armr<\/em> (arm), Latin armus<\/em> (shoulder) and Greek harmos<\/em> (joint).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" brachiate, adjective = having widely divergent paired branches; verb = to swing by the arms from one hold to the next Origin: from Latin bracchi\u0101tus – with armlike branches. Here’s another interesting word from Richard Dawkins’ “The Ancestor’s Tale” – he mentions it while discussion the astounding acrobatic abilities of gibbons, and speculating whether our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbrachium, noun = arm or wing. From Latin bracchium<\/em> – arm, from Greek \u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03c7\u03af\u03bf\u03bd (brakhi\u014dn)<\/em> – arm
\nbrachial, adjective = of or relating to the arm or am armlike structure
\nbrace, noun = something that steadies, binds, or holds up something else
\nbraces (UK) = suspenders (US)
\nbracelet
\nbracer, noun = a leather guard worn to protect the arm in archery and fencing<\/p>\n
\nSpanish – brazo
\nPortuguese – bra\u00e7o
\nCatalan – bra\u00e7
\nFrench – bras
\nRomanian – bra\u0163
\nRumantsch – bratsch<\/p>\n