roche

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

roche (plural roches)

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

• -chore, chore, ocher, ochre

From Old French roche (variants: roce, roke, roque), from Medieval Latin rocca, from Vulgar Latin *rocca, of uncertain origin, probably Celtic and most likely pre-Latin.

Compare Italian rocca, Spanish roca, as well as English rock 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)

• rocheux

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

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

roche

1. feminine plural of roco

• orche

From Medieval Latin rocca, from Vulgar Latin *rocca, of uncertain origin, possibly Celtic. More at roche. Compare Jèrriais roque.

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

1. rock (large mass of stone)

• French: roche

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