rocha

Attested since the 14th century. From Old French roche, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin. Doublet of roca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔt͡ʃa̝/

rocha f (plural rochas)

1. rock
2. (archaic) stronghold, castle

• Rocha
• Rochela

• rochoso

• “rocha”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• “rocha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “rocha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “rocha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “rocha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “rocha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

Cognate with Italian rocca, English rock, French roche, and Breton roc'h. Doublet of roca.

• Hyphenation: ro‧cha

rocha f (plural rochas)

1. rock

• rochoso

• “rocha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “rocha” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrot͡ʃa/ [ˈro.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: ro‧cha

Deverbal from rochar.

rocha f (plural rochas)

1. (agriculture) debushing

rocha

1. inflection of rochar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “rocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014