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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French roche, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin. Doublet of rocca.
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Noun
roccia f (plural rocce)
- rock, crag
mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 5–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:« […] poder ch'elli abbia, ¶ non ci torrà lo scender questa roccia».- « any power that he may have ¶ shall not prevent thy going down this crag».
- rock climbing
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