caboche

From the Norman/Picard dialect, from Old Northern French, equivalent to the Old French caboce.

Compare the English cabbage ultimately of the same origin. Compare also Italian caboccia, capoccia, Spanish cabeza, possibly ultimately from a derivative Latin caput.

• IPA^(key): /ka.bɔʃ/

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caboche f (plural caboches)

1. (colloquial, anatomy) head

• cabochon

• “caboche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• cabache, caboch
• cabage, caboge

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman caboche; further origin is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabɔt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈkabɔd͡ʒ(ə)/, /ˈkabad͡ʒ(ə)/

caboche (plural caboches)

1. cabbage (as a plant or a comestible)
2. (rare) A kind of fish.

• English: cabbage
  • Sranan Tongo: kabisi
  • → Abenaki: kabij
  • → Swahili: kabichi
  • → Yoruba: kábéèjì
• Scots: cabbitch
• Yola: gaubbach, gubbach, gubbauch

• “caboche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 September 2018.

From Old Northern French caboce.

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caboche f (plural caboches)

1. cabbage

First known attestation of this spelling in the 13th century,^[1] northern variant of caboce, where -ch- replaces -c-.

caboche oblique singular, f (oblique plural caboches, nominative singular caboche, nominative plural caboches)

1. (Picard, Anglo-Norman) alternative form of caboce