caboce

Old French

Alternative forms

caboche (Anglo-Norman, Picardy, 13th century onwards)

Etymology

From the pejorative suffix ca- + boce, which is disputed:

Possibly a formation from Latin caput (“head”)
From Vulgar Latin *bottia (“bump”), a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”)[1]

Noun

caboce f (oblique plural caboces, nominative singular caboce, nominative plural caboces)

(anatomy) head

Descendants

English: cabbage (borrowed)
French: caboche

References

von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10, page 469

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caboche, supplement)
“caboche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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