different between creche vs childcare

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

• Creech

Old French

Alternative forms

• crecche, cresche

Etymology

From Late Latin cripia, from Old Frankish *krippija, *kripja (“crib, cradle”), from Proto-Germanic *kribj?. More at crib.

Noun

creche f (oblique plural creches, nominative singular creche, nominative plural creches)

1. crib, manger [1150 CE]

Descendants

• Angevin: guêrche, querche
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: écrèche (Berrichon)
• Bourguignon: creiche, croiche, crouéche, écreuche, écroche, queurche
• Champenois: aicroche
• Middle French: creche, creppe
  • French: crèche
    • ? English: creche
• ? Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • English: cratch
• Norman: créque
• Picard: crèche (Athois)
• Tourangeau: écrèche, éguerche
• Walloon: crèpe, cripe

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crèche.

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

1. nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)

   Synonym: berçário

Further reading

• “creche” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Alternative forms

• child-care, child care

Etymology

child +? care.

Noun

childcare (countable and uncountable, plural childcares)

1. (uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
   • 1993 Amitai Etzioni - The parenting deficit

     Today most childcare centres are woefully understaffed with poorly paid and underqualified personnel. Child care workers in both the USA and UK are in the lowest tenth of all wage earners.

2. (countable) A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians.

Translations

See also

• childcare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia