roche

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See also: Roche and röche

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English roche; compare English rock and roach, as well as Old French roche.

Noun

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roche (plural roches)

  1. (UK, regional) One of various types of rock or geological strata.
  2. (obsolete) A stony hill.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French roche, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

Compare Italian rocca, Spanish roca, as well as English rock, Dutch rots and Breton roc'h.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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roche f (plural roches)

  1. rock (large mass of stone)

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Further reading

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Italian

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Adjective

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roche

  1. feminine plural of roco

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

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  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈrɔt͡ʃə/, (northern) /ˈrɔkə/

Noun

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

  1. rock (large mass of stone)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • French: roche
  • Norman: rocque
  • Italian: roccia
  • Middle Dutch: rotse
  • ? Old English: *rocc
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rocha

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Further reading

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (roche, supplement)

Romanian

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Noun

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roche f (plural rochi)

  1. Alternative form of rochie

Declension

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Spanish

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Verb

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roche

  1. inflection of rochar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative