bosse
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔs/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔs
- Homophone: bosses
Etymology 1
From Middle French bosse. Compare Occitan bossa, Italian boccia and bozza; cf. also Romanian bot.
Noun
bosse f (plural bosses)
Etymology 2
See bosser.
Verb
bosse
References
- “bosse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French boce. The spelling bosse (as opposed to boce) first appears circa 1389[1]
Descendants
- French: bosse
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
- bosse on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French), subsection 'formes'
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