joc

From Inherited from Old Catalan joc, from Latin iocus (“pastime, sport”). Compare Occitan jòc, French jeu, Spanish juego.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔk/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔk/

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joc m (plural jocs)

1. game (a playful or competitive activity)
2. (uncountable) play (activity for amusement)
3. gambling
4. kit, set, service (any collection of items needed for a certain purpose)
5. assembly (set of pieces working together in a mechanism)
6. (music) rank, register

• joguet
• joguina
• jugar

• “joc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “joc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “joc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “joc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin jocus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French geu.

joc m (oblique plural jocs, nominative singular jocs, nominative plural joc)

1. game

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “jocus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 42

From Latin jocus, iocus.

• IPA^(key): /ʒok/
• Rhymes: -ok

joc n (plural jocuri)

1. game, play
2. dance

• juca
• jucărie
• jucător

joc

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of juca