Where does “braga” come from?

braga (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese braga, from Latin Bracara Augusta, from Latin Bracari — A pre-Roman tribe of Hispania Tarraconensis.

braga (Galician): pants; panty; panties, knickers; bikini bottom

Definitions

  1. pants; panty; panties, knickers; bikini bottom

Ancestry of “braga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesebraga—
2LatinBracara Augustathe chief city of the Bracari, in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Braga
3LatinBracariA pre-Roman tribe of Hispania Tarraconensis

Words derived from “braga”

Every word from Latin Bracari →Every word from Latin Bracara Augusta →Every word from Old Portuguese braga →
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