souche

French

des souches (1)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French souche, from Old French çoche, from Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan and Spanish soca, Sicilian zuccu. More at English stock.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /suʃ/
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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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