boccia

See also: Boccia

English

People playing boccia at the Paralympics

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekbor.?

Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis)der.

Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia)bor.

Vulgar Latin *buttia

Italian bocciabor.

English boccia

Borrowed from Italian boccia (“ball”), from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek. Doublet of butt (“wooden cask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt͡ʃə/
• Rhymes: -ɒtʃə

Noun

boccia (uncountable)

1. A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills.

Translations

sport similar to bocce

• Chinese:

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• Georgian: ბოჩა (boča)
• German: Boccia (de) f
• Japanese: ボッチャ (botcha)
• Korean: 보치아 (bochia)
• Malayalam: ബോഷ്യ (bōṣya)
• Portuguese: boccia
• Russian: бочча f (bočča)
• Slovene: bočanje n
• Thai: บอคเซีย

See also

• bocce
• wheelchair curling

Italian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekbor.?

Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis)der.

Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia)bor.

Vulgar Latin *buttia

Italian boccia

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek. See also bozza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ɔttʃa
• Hyphenation: bòc‧cia

Noun

boccia f (plural bocce)

1. bowl, bowling ball
2. flagon, decanter
3. (vulgar, slang, in the plural) tits, boobs, jugs

Descendants

• → Catalan: botxa
• → English: boccia
• → Galician: bocha
• → Portuguese: bocha
• → Spanish: bocha

Anagrams

• Baccio, biacco

Portuguese

Noun

boccia f (plural boccias)

1. dated spelling of bocha

Further reading

• “boccia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Sicilian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekbor.?

Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis)der.

Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia)bor.

Vulgar Latin *buttia

Sicilian boccia

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

Noun

boccia f (plural bocci)

1. (games) ball, bowl

   Synonym: badda

   bocci e ragogghia (literally “bowls and hoop”)

2. liquor bottle

Derived terms

• buccinu

Descendants

• → Maltese: boċċa

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868), “boccia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 546
• Pasqualino (c. 1790), “boccia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 204
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “boccia”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 115