different between croche vs creche

English

Etymology

From Middle English croche, from Old French croche, equivalent to English crochet (“hook”), croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *kr?kaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Noun

croche (plural croches)

1. A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

French

Etymology

From Middle French croche, from Old French croche, feminine form of croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *kr?kaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/

Adjective

croche (plural croches)

1. (Canada, informal) hooked; curved
2. (Canada, informal) crooked; not straight as it should be
3. (Canada, informal) crooked; dishonest or of otherwise dubious morality

Synonyms

• (of dubious morality): pas catholique

Noun

croche f (plural croches)

1. (music) an eighth note or quaver

Derived terms

• double croche
• triple croche
• quadruple croche
• quintuple croche
• sextuple croche

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cocher

Old French

Etymology

Feminine form of croc

Adjective

croche m (oblique and nominative feminine singular croche)

1. hooked; curved

Declension

Noun

croche ?

1. hook

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.