roche
See also: Roche and röche
English
Etymology
From Middle English roche; compare English rock and roach, as well as Old French roche.
Noun
roche (plural roches)
- (UK, regional) One of various types of rock or geological strata.
- (obsolete) A stony hill.
Anagrams
- -chore, chore, ocher, ochre
French
Etymology
From Old French roche, from early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.
Compare Italian rocca, Spanish roca, as well as English rock and Breton roc'h.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔʃ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʃ
- Homophone: roches
Noun
roche f (plural roches)
- rock (large mass of stone)
Derived terms
- abri sous roche
- clair comme de l'eau de roche
- cristal de roche
- roche moutonnée
- rocheux
- y avoir anguille sous roche
Further reading
- “roche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
roche
- feminine plural of roco
Anagrams
- Chero, orche
Old French
Alternative forms
- rocche, rouche
- roke, roque (northern)
- roce
Etymology
From early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- (classical) IPA(key): /ˈrɔt͡ʃə/, (northern) /ˈrɔkə/
Noun
roche f (oblique plural roches, nominative singular roche, nominative plural roches)
- rock (large mass of stone)
Descendants
- French: roche
- Norman: rocque
- → Italian: roccia
- →? Old English: *rocc
- Middle English: rokke, rokk, rok
- English: rock
- Scots: rok
- Yola: ruck
- Middle English: rokke, rokk, rok
- → Old Portuguese: rocha
- Galician: rocha
- Portuguese: rocha
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*rŏcca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 440
Further reading
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (roche, supplement)
Romanian
Noun
roche f (plural rochi)
- Alternative form of rochie
Declension
Declension of roche
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (o) roche | rochea | (niște) rochi | rochile |
| genitive/dative | (unei) rochi | rochii | (unor) rochi | rochilor |
| vocative | roche, rocheo | rochilor | ||
Spanish
Verb
roche
- inflection of rochar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative