Noun: froc
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | froc |
| Plural m | frocs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like froc
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French frocq (“cloth made of coarse wool”), from Old French froc (compare Late Latin hroccus (“frock”)), from Frankish *hrokk (“robe, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“robe, garment, cowl”), variant of *rukkaz (“upper garment, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *rug(')- (“upper clothes, shirt”).
2. Cognate with Old High German hroch, roc (“tunic, smock, jersey”) (German Rock), Old Saxon rok (“mantle, jacket”), Old English rocc (“over-garment, jacket”). See: German Nouns '
Rock', Old English Nouns '
rocc'.
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