branca

Inherited from Late Latin branca, possibly of Gaulish or other pre-Roman origin. Compare Occitan branca.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾaŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɾaŋ.ka]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: bran‧ca

branca f (plural branques)

1. branch

• “branca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “branca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾaŋka/ [ˈbɾɑŋ.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -aŋka
• Hyphenation: bran‧ca

branca f sg

1. feminine singular of branco

From Late Latin branca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbran.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: bràn‧ca

branca f (plural branche)

1. claw (of a cat etc.)
2. talon (of a bird)
3. branch (of knowledge etc.)
4. (anatomy) branch
5. (in the plural) clutches

• → Ottoman Turkish: پرانقه (pranka), پرانغه (pranga)
  • Turkish: pranga
  • → Albanian: pranga
  • → Armenian: փըռանկա (pʻəṙanka) — Constantinople
  • → Macedonian: пранга (pranga)

• branca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂ (from which Proto-Balto-Slavic *ránkāˀ (“hand, arm”)). Possibly influenced by bracchium (“forearm; arm; limb of an animal (e.g. claw, tentacle); branch (of a tree)”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbraŋ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbraŋ.ka]

branca f (genitive brancae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. paw, foot

First-declension noun.

• "branca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Late Latin branca. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): [ˈbɾaŋko]

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branca f (plural brancas)

1. (Languedoc, Provençal) branch

• brancha (Limousin)

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃kɐ
• Homophone: Branca
• Hyphenation: bran‧ca

branca

1. feminine singular of branco

branca f (plural brancas)

1. brain freeze (failure to remember something)