bocia

Borrowed from Venetian bocia, probably from Italian boccia, either in the sense of “wooden ball (for the game of bocce)” or in the jocular sense of “young boy”, sometimes as well of "head".

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ɔtʃa
• Hyphenation: bò‧cia

bocia m (invariable)

1. (Alpini military slang) boy, rookie

• bocia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bacio, baciò

Probably a Latinization of French French bosse.

bocia f (genitive bociae); first declension(Medieval Latin)

1. pestilential ulcer

• → Spanish: bocio

• bocia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887), sense 4
• Corominas, Joan and José A. Pascual. 1984. w:Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. A-CA. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, page 605

bocia f (plural bocie)

1. child (young person)