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Braccae (or bracae) is the Latin term for "trousers", and in this context is today used to refer to a style of trousers made from wool. According to the Romans, this style of clothing originated from the Gauls.Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica
Braccae were typically made with a drawstring, and tended to reach from just above the knee at the shortest, to the ankles at the longest, with length generally increasing in tribes living further north.
For the Roman Empire, to encircle the legs and thighs with fasciae, or bands, was understood, in the time of Pompey and Horace, to be a proof of ill health and effeminacy. Roman men typically wore , which were one-piece outfits terminating at or above the knee.
The word is cognate with the English breeches. It appears to derive from the Indo-European root bhrg- "break", here apparently used in the sense "divide", "separate", as in Scottish Gaelic briogais ("trousers"), in Breton language bragoù ("pants"), in Irish language bríste ("trousers"), brycan/brogau in Welsh Language and in Dutch language broek ("trousers"). The Celtic form may have first passed to the Etruscan language, which did not distinguish between the and sounds.Compare other possible examples of transition through Etruscan: Greek ἀμόργη (amorge) being rendered as Latin amurca, Greek κυβερνᾶν (kubernân) as Latin gubernare.
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