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rocca

See also: Rocca

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

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Noun

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rocca f (plural rocche)

  1. fortress, stronghold
  2. rock
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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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rocca f (plural rocche)

  1. distaff (a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it)
Descendants
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  • → Armenian: րոք (rokʻ)
  • → Greek: ρόκα (róka)

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. rock

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rocca roccae
genitive roccae roccārum
dative roccae roccīs
accusative roccam roccās
ablative roccā roccīs
vocative rocca roccae

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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rocca

  1. genitive plural of rocc
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