broc

See also: broć, bróc, and bróć

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɾɔk]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin broccus.

Noun

broc m (plural brocs)

1. spout
2. stick
3. trifle
4. (in the plural) excuses, pretexts

   No fotem, que no estic per brocs. ― Let's not fuck around, I'm not in the mood for excuses.

Synonyms

• (excuse): romanço

Related terms

• broca

Further reading

• “broc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “broc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “broc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology 2

Verb

broc

1. (Balearic) first-person singular present indicative of brocar

French

un broc à toilette ― a ewer for dressing table

un broc à lait ― a pitcher for milk

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Old Provençal broc, related to Italian brocca (“jug”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁo/

  • Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• IPA^(key): /bʁɔk/ (nonstandard, but sometimes heard; compare croc)

  • Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ, -ɔk

Noun

broc m (plural brocs)

1. ewer, pitcher

Further reading

• “broc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• broc (récipient) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish brocc, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) (compare Welsh broch).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠɔk/

Noun

broc m (genitive singular broic, nominative plural broic)

1. badger

Declension

Declension of broc (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative broc broic vocative a bhroic a bhroca genitive broic broc dative broc broic forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an broc na broic genitive an bhroic na mbroc dative leis an mbroc don bhroc leis na broic

Derived terms

• broc meala (“honey badger”)
• brocach (“badger den, sett”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of broc

radical	lenition	eclipsis
broc	bhroc	mbroc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “broc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “broc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “broc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Manx

Noun

broc m (genitive singular broc, plural brockyn)

1. alternative form of brock

Mutation

Mutation of broc

radical	lenition	eclipsis
broc	vroc	mroc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /broːk/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk.

Noun

brōc f

1. (in the plural) underpants; see brēċ
2. (euphemistic) butt

Declension

Strong consonant stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	brōc	brēċ
accusative	brōc	brēċ
genitive	brēċ, brōce	brōca
dative	brēċ	brōcum

Descendants

• Middle English: brek, breke, brech, breche, breech (all from the plural)
  • English: breech, breeches, britches

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk (etymology 2).

Noun

brōc m

1. brook

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	brōc	brōcas
accusative	brōc	brōcas
genitive	brōces	brōca
dative	brōce	brōcum

Descendants

• Middle English: brook
  • English: brook
  • Scots: broke, bruke

Etymology 3

Noun

broc m

1. alternative form of brocc

Etymology 4

Noun

brōc

1. labour, toil
2. affliction
3. disease

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	brōc	brōcu
accusative	brōc	brōcu
genitive	brōces	brōca
dative	brōce	brōcum

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bróc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scottish Gaelic

Broc (1).

Etymology

From Middle Irish brocc. Cognates include Irish broc and Manx broc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾɔʰk/
• Hyphenation: broc

Noun

broc m (genitive singular bruic, plural bruic)

1. badger (Meles meles)
2. (obsolete) synonym of faol (“wolf”)

Declension

Declension of broc (type I masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	broc	bruic
genitive	bruic	bhroc
dative	broc	bruic; brocaibh1
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(am) broc	(na) bruic
genitive	(a') bhruic	(nam) broc
dative	(a') bhroc	(na) bruic; brocaibh1
vocative	bhruic	bhroca; bhrocaibh

¹ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• broc-lann
• brocair

Mutation

Mutation of broc

radical	lenition
broc	bhroc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Mark, Colin (2003), “broc”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 93

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔk/

Etymology 1

From Middle English broce (“brushwood, fragment”), from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”).

Noun

broc m (uncountable)

1. sea wrack, driftwood

Derived terms

• broc môr (“driftwood”)

Etymology 2

From Irish broc (“grey, mottled, flecked”) or English brock (“(inferior) horse, trotter”).

Adjective

broc (feminine singular broc, plural broc, equative mor froc, comparative mwy broc, superlative mwyaf broc)

1. roan (of a horse)

Derived terms

• brocfelyn (“chestnut roan, strawberry roan”)
• brocgoch (“bay roan, red roan”)
• broclas (“blue roan, grey roan”)
• brocwinau (“bay roan, red roan”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of broc

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
broc	froc	mroc	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “broc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies