roquette

Borrowed from French roquette.

roquette (usually uncountable, plural roquettes)

1. A herb of the mustard family, with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.

• arugula
• rocket

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.kɛt/

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From Middle French roquette, borrowed from Italian rocchetta, from a diminutive form of rocca, from Lombardic rocko, rukka, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô.

roquette f (plural roquettes)

1. rocket (weapon)

Borrowed from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin erūca.

roquette f (plural roquettes)

1. rocket (UK, Australia, NZ); arugula (US) (plant)

• lance-roquette

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