broche

Borrowed from French broche.

broche (plural broches)

1. Obsolete form of brooch.

broche (third-person singular simple present broches, present participle broching, simple past and past participle broched)

1. Obsolete form of broach.

From Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish, compare Old Irish brog (“awl”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔʃ/

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broche f (plural broches)

1. (jewellery) brooch, pin
2. (cooking) spit, skewer

   poulet à la broche ― chicken on the spit

3. spike, peg

• brocher
  • brochure
• brochet
• brochette
• embrocher

• → German: Brosche
• → Portuguese: broche
• → Spanish: broche

broche

1. first-person singular present indicative of brocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of brocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of brocher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of brocher
5. second-person singular imperative of brocher

• “broche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

broche

1. brooch

broche f (invariable)

1. (mycology) sheathed woodtuft (Kuehneromyces mutabilis (synonym: Pholiota mutabilis)).

• famigliola gialla

From Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, from Latin broccus.

• brooche, brouche, bruche, brush

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔːtʃ(ə)/

broche (plural broches)

1. A spear or pike; a weapon for impalement.
2. A spit; a rod for cooking meat on.
3. A brooch; jewelry mounted on a pin.
4. Any piece of jewelry or ornamentation.
5. Any other long rod, pole, or needle.
6. (rare, figuratively) Something very valuable.

• brochen

• English: broach, brooch
• Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

• “brōche, n.(1).” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-16.

From Old French brochier.

broche

1. Alternative form of brochen

From Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin brocchus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche f (plural broches)

1. (Jersey, cooking) spit

• r'pas à la broche

From Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin brocchus (“pointed, sharp”).

broche f (oblique plural broches, nominative singular broche, nominative plural broches)

1. brooch, pin (jewellery)
2. (cooking) spit

• French: broche
• → Galician: brocha (“pin; nail”)
• → Middle English: broche, brooche, brouche, bruche, brush
  • English: broach, brooch
  • Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɔ.ʃi/

broche m (plural broches)

1. brooch
2. clasp

broche

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of brochar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of brochar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of brochar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of brochar

Borrowed from French broche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾot͡ʃe/

broche m (plural broches)

1. clasp, brooch
2. paperclip
3. cuff link, cufflink
4. punch line (final, concluding statement)
5. (Argentina) clothes peg

• abrochar

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