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Webster 1913 Edition


Boce

Boce

(bōs)
,
Noun.
[L.
box
,
bocis
, Gr.
βόαξ
,
βῶξ
.]
(Zool.)
A European fish (
Box vulgaris
), having a compressed body and bright colors; – called also
box
, and
bogue
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Boce

BOCE

,
Noun.
The sparus, a beautiful fish.

Definition 2024


boce

boce

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Noun

boce

  1. locative singular of bok

Old French

Alternative forms

  • boche (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

Etymology

Uncertain. Either from Frankish *bottja, Latin *bottia (bump)[1], or from Late Latin *buttia, from buttis. All of which are unattested[2].

Noun

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

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

Descendants

References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
  1. (fr)(de) *bottia in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)
  2. bosse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).