noce

Inherited from Old French noce, noces, from Vulgar Latin *noptiās, from Latin nuptiās.

• IPA^(key): /nɔs/

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noce f (plural noces)

1. (in the plural) wedding
2. wedding party, reception
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome V : Jean Valjean, book 7:

     Les lendemains de noce sont solitaires. On respecte le recueillement des heureux. Et aussi un peu leur sommeil attardé.

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3. (colloquial) party, knees-up

• faire la noce

• mariage

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

• cône, once

Inherited from Latin nucem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Sicilian nuci.

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Hyphenation: nó‧ce

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noce f (plural noci, diminutive nocìna, augmentative nocióna)

1. walnut (fruit)

   Meronyms: gheriglio, guscio, mallo

2. (botany) nut
3. (archery) nut lock (part of a crossbow)
4. nut (tumbler of a gunlock)
5. (spinning) a part of a spindle
6. (typography) synonym of castelletto
7. (nautical) the thicker part at the end of masts and yardarms
8. a particular size for solid combustibles
9. (butchery) top round inside

   Synonyms: (northern Italy) fesa, (regional) rosa, (regional) rosetta, scannello, soccoscio, sottocoscio, (central Italy) tracoscio

• noceto
• nocciolo

noce m (plural noci)

1. (botany, uncountable) walnut
2. a walnut tree
3. (uncountable) walnut (wood)

   Hypernym: legno

noce (invariable)

1. walnut (having a dark brown colour/color)

• noce on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• noce¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• noce² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Ceno, ceno, ceno-, cenò, ocne, once

noce f (Hebrew spelling נוג׳י)

1. (Romania) alternative spelling of noche
   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 11:

     En mi corason esta tu memoria santa
     Dia i noce de mi no se aparta

     In my heart lies your holy memory, day and night it separates not from me.

nocē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of noceō

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈnoːt͡ʃə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊːt͡ʃ]

Inherited from Latin nux.

noce f (plural nuce)

1. nut

Likely a palatalized variant of Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ). Cognate with Italian nuca.

noce f (plural nuce)

1. (anatomy) nape

   Synonym: cuzzèttu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1297: “il noce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “noce”, in Schedario Napoletano

no (not) +‎ ce (if). Cognate with Sanskrit नो चेद् (no ced, “if not”)

noce

1. if not, unless

Also written as two words. The collocation clarifies the meaning of the word no.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.t͡sɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛ
• Syllabification: no‧ce

noce f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of noc