creche

See also: crèche and créché

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

  1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

creche 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
  • → Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • Norman: créque
  • Picard: crèche (Athois)
  • Tourangeau: écrèche, éguerche
  • Walloon: crèpe, cripe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French crèche.[1][2]

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

  • Homophone: cresce
  • Hyphenation: cre‧che

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

  1. nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)
    Synonym: infantário, Synonym: presepe, Synonym: abrigo

References
  1. “creche” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “creche” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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