caboche

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.bɔʃ/

Noun

caboche f (plural caboches)

  1. (colloquial, anatomy) head

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French caboce.

Pronunciation

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Noun

caboche f (plural caboches)

  1. cabbage

Old French

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

References

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