Noun: rocchetta
Gender: f
Hyphenation: roc‧chét‧ta
| Singular f | rocchetta |
| Plural f | rocchette |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rocchetta
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.
2. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). See: German Nouns '
Rocken', Swedish Nouns '
rock', Icelandic Nouns '
rokkur', Middle English Nouns '
rocke'.
Verbs referencing "rocchetta"
English Nouns
rocket, Finnish Nouns
raketti, German Nouns
Rakete, French Nouns
roquette, Hungarian Nouns
rakéta, Dutch Nouns
raket, Swedish Nouns
raket, Romanian Nouns
rachetă, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
rakett, Latvian Nouns
raķete.
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