roche

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

roche (plural roches)

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

• -chore, chore, ocher, ochre

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.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʃ
• Homophone: roches

roche f (plural roches)

1. rock (large mass of stone)

• abri sous roche
• clair comme de l’eau de roche
• cristal de roche
• roche moutonnée
• rocheux
• y avoir anguille sous roche

• “roche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

roche

1. feminine plural of roco

• Chero, orche

• rocche, rouche
• roke, roque (northern)
• roce

From Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

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

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

1. rock (large mass of stone)

• 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

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*rŏcca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 440

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roche, supplement)

roche f (plural rochi)

1. Alternative form of rochie

roche

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