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

1. rock (large mass of stone)

Descendants

• French: roche
• Norman: rocque
• → Italian: roccia
• →? 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 (in German), 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

Declension of roche

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) roche	rochea	(niște) rochi	rochile
genitive/dative	(unei) rochi	rochii	(unor) 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