souche
French
Etymology
From Middle French souche, from Old French çoche, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan and Spanish soca. More at English stock.
Pronunciation
Noun
souche f (plural souches)
- stump (of a tree)
- (viral) strain
- une souche virale inédite a fait au minimum vingt morts
- an unknown viral strain has caused at least twenty deaths
- (by extension, linguistics) root
- un mot de souche latine ― a word originating in Latin
- (by extension, genealogy) origin
- un Américain de souche ― someone of American origin
- (by extension, genetics) founder
Derived terms
Further reading
- “souche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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