rocca

See also: Rocca

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔk.ka/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔkka
  • Hyphenation: ròc‧ca

Noun

rocca f (plural rocche)

  1. fortress, stronghold
  2. rock
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the older form rocca, from Gothic rukka, 𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (rukka), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô, compare Old High German rocko.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrok.ka/[1]
  • Rhymes: -okka
  • Hyphenation: róc‧ca

Noun

rocca f (plural rocche)

  1. distaff (a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it)

References
  1. rocca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 110

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; seemingly from a non-Indo-European substrate. First attested in a document from France dating to AD 767.

Noun

rocca f (genitive roccae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. rock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rocca roccae
Genitive roccae roccārum
Dative roccae roccīs
Accusative roccam roccās
Ablative roccā roccīs
Vocative rocca roccae

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • ⇒? Aromanian: arocut
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: roca
    • Gascon: arròca
    • Occitan: ròca, ròcha
    • Old French: roche, roque (see there for further descendants)

References
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