basoche

French

basoche (plural basoches)

1. A guild of legal clerks in pre-revolutionary France.

• bazoche

From Old French basoche, besoiche, from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ). The phonetic evolution was special in this case, as the expected result would be *baseuche (cf. the place name La Bazeuge). Doublet of the borrowing basilique.

basoche f (plural basoches)

1. basoche

• “basoche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).