caboce

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the apparently pejorative prefix ca- +‎ boce (“swelling, lump”, see there for more), but this is disputed. Alternatively a formation from Latin caput (“head”), but the medial p would have regularly lenited to v; this might then require borrowing from another Romance language or lost dialect. Possibly a merger or conflation of the two words.

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) head

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