roquette
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French roquette. Cognate with rocket, see that entry for other cognates.
Noun edit
roquette (usually uncountable, plural roquettes)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French roquette, borrowed from Italian rocchetta, from a diminutive form of rocca, from Lombardic rocko, rukka, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô.
Noun edit
roquette f (plural roquettes)
- rocket (weapon)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin erūca.
Noun edit
roquette f (plural roquettes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Turkish: roket
Further reading edit
- “roquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.