rocca

See also: Rocca

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔk.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔkka
• Hyphenation: ròc‧ca

Noun

rocca f (plural rocche)

1. fortress, stronghold
2. rock

Derived terms

• cristallo di rocca
• allume di rocca

Etymology 2

From the older form rocca, from a reflex of Proto-Germanic *rukkô, possibly a Gothic *𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (*rukka) but compare also Old High German rocko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrok.ka/
• Rhymes: -okka
• Hyphenation: róc‧ca

Noun

rocca f (plural rocche)

1. distaff (a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it)

Descendants

• → Armenian: րոք (rokʻ)
• → Greek: ρόκα (róka)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اوركه (öreke)
    • Turkish: öreke
    • → Armenian: էօրէքէ (ēōrēkʻē), օռոք / օռօք (ōṙokʻ)

Anagrams

• carco, carcò, corca

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; seemingly from a non-Indo-European substrate. First attested in a document from France dating to AD 767.

Noun

rocca f (genitive roccae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. rock

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rocca	roccae
genitive	roccae	roccārum
dative	roccae	roccīs
accusative	roccam	roccās
ablative	roccā	roccīs
vocative	rocca	roccae

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • ⇒? Aromanian: arocut
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rocca
    • → Sardinian: rocca
  • Sicilian: rocca
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: roca
  • Piedmontese: roca
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: roca
    • → Portuguese: roca
    • → Spanish: roca
  • Occitan: ròca, ròcha
    • Gascon: arròca
      • →? Basque: arroka
  • Old French: roche, roque (see there for further descendants)

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “rocca”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 921
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*rŏcca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 440

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrok.kɑ/

Noun

rocca

1. genitive plural of rocc