basoche

English

Etymology

French. Doublet of basilica.

Noun

basoche (plural basoches)

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

French

Alternative forms

• bazoche

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ba.zɔʃ/

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Noun

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

Further reading

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