Bracelet
nounAn ornamental band or chain worn around the wrist or arm.
How to spell bracelet
8 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce bracelet
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does bracelet mean?
- nounAn ornamental band or chain worn around the wrist or arm.
Bracelet in a sentence
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She fastened the silver bracelet around her wrist before the party.
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The jeweller repaired the broken clasp on the gold bracelet.
Where does bracelet come from?
Language of origin: French
The word comes from the Old French bracelet, a diminutive of bracel, which itself derived from the Latin bracchiale meaning 'armlet' or 'band worn on the arm'. That word was built on bracchium, the Latin for 'arm', so a bracelet was literally a 'little arm band'. English adopted the term in the early 1400s, keeping the French diminutive ending -let intact. The same arm root survives in the modern word 'brace', which originally referred to the two arms or clasps that hold something together. The spelling trap lives in that quiet middle: the 'e' after 'brace' is easy to drop, yet it preserves the soft 'c' sound and the word's link to its French parent.
How the word is built
- brace- (from Latin bracchium: arm)
- -let (diminutive suffix)
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