boccia

Borrowed from Italian boccia (“ball”), from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek. Doublet of butt (“wooden cask”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒt͡ʃə/
• Rhymes: -ɒtʃə

boccia (uncountable)

1. A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills.

• bocce
• wheelchair curling

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek. See also bozza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ɔttʃa
• Hyphenation: bòc‧cia

boccia f (plural bocce)

1. bowl, bowling ball
2. flagon, decanter
3. (vulgar, slang, in the plural) tits, boobs, jugs

• → Catalan: botxa
• → English: boccia
• → Galician: bocha
• → Japanese: ボッチャ (botcha)
• → Korean: 보치아 (bochia)
• → Portuguese: bocha
• → Spanish: bocha

• Baccio, biacco

boccia f (plural boccias)

1. dated spelling of bocha

• “boccia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

boccia f (plural bocci)

1. (games) ball, bowl

   Synonym: badda

   bocci e ragogghia (literally “bowls and hoop”)

2. liquor bottle

• buccinu

• → Maltese: boċċa

• Traina, Antonino (1868), “boccia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 546
• Pasqualino (c. 1790), “boccia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 204
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “boccia”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 115