Noun: souche
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | souche |
| Plural f | souches |
Sample Sentences
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une souche virale inédite a fait au minimum vingt morts (an unknown viral strain has caused at least twenty deaths)
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un mot de souche latine (a word originating in Latin)
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un Américain de souche (someone of American origin)
Nouns inflected like souche
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Spanish Nouns '
soca', English Nouns '
stock'.
Verbs referencing "souche"
Catalan Nouns
soca, Romanian Nouns
sușă.
Translations