rocade

French

Etymology

Equivalent to roquer (“to castle (in chess)”) +‎ -ade, by analogy to how the king and rook move behind the line of pawns.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rocade f (plural rocades)

1. (military) a communication channel behind the front line, allowing soldiers and materiel to move about
2. bypass, ring road
3. (technology) a kind of twisted-pair cable

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: рокада (rokada)
• → Danish: rokade
• → Dutch: rokade (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Rochade
• → Macedonian: рокада (rokada)
• → Romanian: rocadă
• → Russian: рока́да (rokáda)
• → Serbo-Croatian: рокада
• → Swedish: rockad

See also

• (bypass): autoroute, départementale, nationale

Further reading

• “rocade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.