different between cloche vs clocke

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??/, /klo??/
• Rhymes: -??, -o??

Noun

cloche (plural cloches)

1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
3. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
4. (aviation, historical) An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc.

Synonyms

• (hat): cloche hat

Translations

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (see also Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), ultimately imitative. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??/

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
2. a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
3. a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
4. a tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
5. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

Derived terms

• déménager à la cloche de bois
• sauvé par la cloche
• se taper la cloche
• son de cloche

Adjective

cloche (plural cloches)

1. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid

Derived terms

• à cloche-pied

Verb

cloche

1. first-person singular present indicative of clocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of clocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
5. second-person singular imperative of clocher

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

From English clutch

Noun

cloche f (invariable)

1. joystick
2. gear lever (in a car)

Etymology 2

From French cloche (“bell”)

Noun

cloche f (invariable)

1. cloche hat

Middle English

Noun

cloche

1. Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

Middle French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca, probably from Celtic, compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg, all from Proto-Celtic *klokkos; ultimately imitative.

Noun

cloche f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cloch, clutch

Etymology

From English clutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klot??e/, [?klo.t??e]

Noun

cloche m (plural cloches)

1. clutch

   Synonym: embrague

English

Noun

clocke (plural clockes)

1. Obsolete spelling of clock

Anagrams

• Elcock, cockle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *klokka, from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?g-, *kl?g- (onomatopoeia).

Noun

clocke f

1. bell
2. something bell-shaped

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: klok
• Limburgish: klók

Further reading

• “clocke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “clocke (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

clocke

1. Alternative form of clokke