bracatus Latin · revision 35803

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero (81–43 BC)|origins=la brācae}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [braːˈkaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [braˈkaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''brācātus''' (feminine brācāta, neuter brācātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|brācae|-ātus|t1=trousers]], “wearing trousers”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The noun is probably from [[xtg|*brāca]], which may itself come from Germanic.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it in the ''Prō Fonteiō'', picturing men “in cloaks and trousers”, ''sagātōs brācātōsque'', and also speaks of ''nātiōnēs brācātae''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Trousers were not worn by the Romans,^(Wiktionary) so the word served as an epithet for foreign, [[m|en|barbarian]] or effeminate peoples, such as Gauls, Getae and Medes.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pomponius Mela notes that the part of Gaul later called Narbonensis was once called ''brācāta'', and the masculine plural named its inhabitants.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of trousered Gauls.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Pomponius Mela says that Gallia Narbonensis was formerly called ''brācāta''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wearing [[m|en|trousers]] or [[m|en|breeches]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(by extension)'' Foreign, [[m|en|barbarian]], effeminate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An epithet of the part of [[m|en|Gaul]] later called Narbonensis;^(OLD 2012) ''(masculine plural, as a noun)'' its inhabitants.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}