different between croquet vs roque

English

Etymology

From Middle French or Old Northern French; see crochet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kr?'k?, IPA^(key): /?k???ke?/, /?k???ki/
• (US) enPR: kr?k?', IPA^(key): /k?o??ke?/

Noun

croquet (countable and uncountable, plural croquets)

1. (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
2. (countable, games) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
3. (countable) A croquette.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: cróquete, croquet

Translations

Verb

croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)

1. (transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

English croquet

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /k?o?k?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /k?u?k?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /k?o?ket/

Noun

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. croquet

Further reading

• “croquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “croquet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “croquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kro??k?t/
• Hyphenation: cro?quet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)

1. Superseded spelling of kroket.

Usage notes

• The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

French

Etymology

• croquer +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?/

Noun

croquet m (plural croquets)

1. (sports) croquet
2. croquette

English

Etymology

Coined 1899 by removing the first and last letters from croquet.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

roque (uncountable)

1. (US) a form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface

References

Anagrams

• Quero, quero

French

Etymology

From roquer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/

Noun

roque m (plural roques)

1. (chess) an instance of castling

Verb

roque

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• orque

Galician

Noun

roque m (plural roques)

1. (chess) rook

Synonyms

• torre

Derived terms

• enroque
• enrocar

See also

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French roc.

Noun

roque m (plural roques)

1. (chess) castling (move in chess)

Verb

roque

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rocar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rocar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rocar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rocar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rock.

Noun

roque m (plural roques)

1. Alternative form of rock

Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic ???, from Arabic ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roke/, [?ro.ke]

Noun

roque m (plural roques)

1. (chess) rook

   Synonym: torre

Derived terms

• enroque
• enrocar

See also