creche
English
Noun
creche (plural creches)
- Alternative spelling of crèche.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
creche
- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular preterite indicative of crer
Old French
Alternative forms
- crecche, cresche
Etymology
From Late Latin cripia, from Old Frankish *krippija, *kripja (“crib, cradle”), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. More at crib.
Noun
creche oblique singular, f (oblique plural creches, nominative singular creche, nominative plural creches)
Descendants
- Angevin: guêrche, querche
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: écrèche (Berrichon)
- Bourguignon: creiche, croiche, crouéche, écreuche, écroche, queurche
- Champenois: aicroche
- Middle French: creche, creppe
- Norman: créque
- Picard: crèche (Athois)
- Walloon: crèpe, cripe
- → Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
- English: cratch
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French crèche.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɾɛ.t͡ʃɨ/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʃi, (Portugal) -ɛʃɨ
- Homophones: (Brazil) crash, (Portugal) cresce
- Hyphenation: cre‧che
Noun
creche f (plural creches)
- nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)
- Synonym: infantário
References
- ^ “creche”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- ^ “creche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Further reading
- “creche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026