souche

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French

des souches (1)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French souche, from Old French çoche, from Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan and Spanish soca, Sicilian zuccu. More at English stock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suʃ/
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Noun

souche f (plural souches)

  1. stump (of a tree)
  2. (viral) strain
    une souche virale inédite a fait au minimum vingt morts
    an unknown viral strain has caused at least twenty deaths
  3. (by extension, linguistics) root
    un mot de souche latine ― a word originating in Latin
  4. (by extension, genealogy) origin
    un Américain de souche ― someone of American origin
  5. (by extension, genetics) founder

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