caboche
French
Etymology
From the Norman/Picard dialect, from Old Northern French, equivalent to the Old French caboce.
Compare the English cabbage ultimately of the same origin. Compare also Italian caboccia, capoccia, Spanish cabeza, possibly ultimately from a derivative Latin caput.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.bɔʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
caboche f (plural caboches)
- (colloquial, anatomy) head
Derived terms
- cabochon
Further reading
- “caboche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cabage, caboge, cabache, caboch
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman caboche; further origin is disputed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkabɔtʃ(ə)/, /ˈkabətʃ(ə)/, /ˈkabədʒ(ə)/, /ˈkabidʒ(ə)/
Noun
caboche (plural caboches)
- cabbage (as a plant or a comestible)
- (rare) A kind of fish.
Descendants
- English: cabbage
- Sranan Tongo: kabisi
- → Abenaki: kabij
- → Yoruba: kábéèjì
- Scots: cabbitch
- Yola: gaubbach, gubbauch, gubbach
References
- “caboche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.
Norman
Etymology
From Old Northern French caboce.
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun
caboche f (plural caboches)
- cabbage
Old French
Etymology
First known attestation of this spelling in the 13th century[1], northern variant of caboce, where -ch- replaces -c-.
Noun
caboche f (oblique plural caboches, nominative singular caboche, nominative plural caboches)
- (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of caboce
References
- Etymology and history of “caboche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.