boce

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Stress: bóce
• Hyphenation: bo‧ce

boce f (plural boci)

1. (archaic, Tuscany) Alternative form of voce
   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda, Novella V [Second Day, Fifth Story]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 40:

     ſi fece alla fineſtra, & con una boce groſſa, horribile, & fiera diſſe. Chi è laggiu? Andreuccio a quella boce levata la teſta vide uno

     He showed himself at the window, and said in a gruff, horrible and savage voice: "Who is below there?" Andreuccio, having looked up in the direction of that voice, saw someone

• boku

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡sɛ/, [ˈbɔt͡sə]

boce

1. locative singular of bok

• boche (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

From Vulgar Latin *bottia (“bump”), a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”)[1]

boce m (oblique plural boces, nominative singular boces, nominative plural boce)

1. swelling (for example, due to injury or illness)

• English: boss (lump; swelling)
• Middle French: bosse
  • French: bosse

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