caboche

From the Norman/Picard dialect, from Old Northern French, equivalent to the Old French caboce.

Compare the English cabbage ultimately of the same origin. Compare also Italian caboccia, capoccia, possibly ultimately from a derivative Latin caput.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bɔʃ/

caboche f (plural caboches)

1. (colloquial, anatomy) head

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

• cabage, caboge, cabache, caboch

From Anglo-Norman caboche; further origin is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɔtʃ(ə)/, /ˈkabətʃ(ə)/, /ˈkabədʒ(ə)/, /ˈkabidʒ(ə)/

caboche (plural caboches)

1. Cabbage (as a plant or a comestible)
2. (rare) A kind of fish.

• English: cabbage
• Scots: cabbitch

• “caboche (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.

From Old Northern French caboce.

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caboche f (plural caboches)

1. cabbage

First known attestation of this spelling in the 13th century[1], northern variant of caboce, where -ch- replaces -c-.

caboche f (oblique plural caboches, nominative singular caboche, nominative plural caboches)

1. (Picardy, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of caboce