estoc
English edit
Etymology edit
French estoc, see there for more. Compare Middle English touk (“a sword”) (whence obsolete English tuck (“rapier, sword”)), Middle English stok(e) (“blow with a sword”) (both probably from Old French estoc).
Noun edit
estoc (plural estocs)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
estoc m (plural estocs)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “estoc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French estoc (“sword”), from Old French estoc (“the point of a sword, rapier”), deverbal of Old French estoquer, estochier (“to stab, thrust”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to thrust, poke”) or Middle High German stoken (“to stab, pierce”), both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn (“to be stiff, push, thrust”). More at stoke.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
estoc m (plural estocs)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “estoc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
estoc n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of estoc (singular only)