creche

See also: crèche and créché

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

  1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin cripia, from Old Frankish *krippija, *kripja (“crib, cradle”). More at crib.

Noun

creche f (oblique plural creches, nominative singular creche, nominative plural creches)

  1. crib, manger [1150 CE]

Descendants
  • Angevin: guêrche, querche
  • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: écrèche (Berrichon)
  • Bourguignon: creiche, croiche, crouéche, écreuche, écroche, queurche
  • Champenois: aicroche
  • Middle French: creche, creppe
  • → Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • Norman: créque
  • Picard: crèche (Athois)
  • Tourangeau: écrèche
  • Walloon: crèpe, cripe

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crèche.

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

  1. nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)

Synonyms

Further reading
  • “creche” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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