creche

See also: crèche and créché

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

• Creech

Galician

Verb

creche

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular preterite indicative of crer

Old French

Alternative forms

• crecche, cresche

Etymology

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

Noun

creche oblique singular, 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
    • → Portuguese: creche
• Norman: créque
• Picard: crèche (Athois)
• Walloon: crèpe, cripe
• → Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • English: cratch

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French crèche.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾɛ.t͡ʃɨ/

• Homophone: cresce (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: cre‧che

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

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

   Synonym: infantário