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)

1. (UK, regional) One of various types of rock or geological strata.
2. (obsolete) A stony hill.

Anagrams

• -chore, chore, ocher, ochre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French roche, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

Compare Italian rocca, Spanish roca, as well as English rock, Dutch rots and Breton roc'h.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ
• Homophone: roches

Noun

roche f (plural roches)

1. 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

1. 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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural roches, nominative singular roche, nominative plural roches)

1. rock (large mass of stone)

Derived terms

• rochelle

 

Descendants

• French: roche
• Norman: rocque
• → Italian: roccia
• → Middle Dutch: rotse
  • Dutch: rots
• →? Old English: *rocc
  • Middle English: rokke, rokk, rok
    • English: rock
    • Scots: rok
    • Yola: ruck
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: rocha
  • Galician: rocha
  • Portuguese: rocha

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*rŏcca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 440

Further reading

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roche, supplement)

Romanian

Noun

roche f (plural rochi)

1. Alternative form of rochie

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	roche	rochea		rochi	rochile
genitive-dative	rochi	rochii		rochi	rochilor
vocative	roche, rocheo			rochilor

Spanish

Verb

roche

1. inflection of rochar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative