boce

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbo.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -otʃe
  • Hyphenation: bó‧ce

Noun

boce f (plural boci)

  1. (archaic, Tuscany) Alternative form of voce
    • 14th century, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella quinta”, in Decameron:
      si fece alla finestra, et con una boce grossa, horribile, et fiera disse. Chi è laggiu? Andreuccio a quella boce levata la testa vide uno
      He showed himself at the window, and said in a gruff, horrible and savage voice: "Who is below there?" Andreuccio, having looked up in the direction of that voice, saw someone

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔt͡sɛ/, [ˈbɔt͡sə]

Noun

boce

  1. locative singular of bok

Old French

Alternative forms
  • boche (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bottia (“bump”), a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *bottja (“knob”), related to Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”)[1]

Noun

boce m (oblique plural boces, nominative singular boces, nominative plural boce)

  1. swelling (for example, due to injury or illness)

Descendants
  • Middle French: bosse
    • French: bosse
  • → Middle English: bos, bose, boce

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 469
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