The story
- Latin · derived frombracchium
- Spanish · borrowed fromabrazar“to embrace”
- English todayabrazo
Borrowed from Spanish abrazar (“to embrace”), from a + brazo (“arm”), from Latin bracchium.
Words from the same roots
Latinbracchium all →
brabrachio-brachiumsecular arm
First known use, by meaning
- First attested in the early 20th century. A Latin American embrace.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.