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basoche

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English

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Etymology

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French. Doublet of basilica.

Noun

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basoche (plural basoches)

  1. A guild of legal clerks in pre-revolutionary France.

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French basoche, besoiche, from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ). The phonetic evolution was special in this case, as the expected result would be *baseuche (cf. the place name La Bazeuge). Doublet of the borrowing basilique.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ba.zɔʃ/
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Noun

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basoche f (plural basoches)

  1. the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, from among whom legal representatives (procureurs) were recruited; basoche

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