souche
French
des souches (1)
Etymology
From Old French çoche, from Gaulish. Cognate with Catalan and Spanish soca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suʃ/
Noun
souche f (plural souches)
- stump (of a tree)
- (viral) strain
- une souche virale inédite a fait au minimum vingt morts
- an unknown viral strain has resulted at least twenty deaths
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- (by extension, linguistics) root
- un mot de souche latine ― a word originating in Latin
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- (by extension, genealogy) origin
- un Américain de souche ― someone of American origin
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- (by extension, genetics) founder
Derived terms
- de souche
Further reading
- “souche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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