noce

See also: Noce, noče, and noçë

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French noce, noces, from Vulgar Latin *noptiās, from Latin nuptiās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔs/

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Noun

noce f (plural noces)

1. (in the plural) wedding
2. wedding party, reception
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome V : Jean Valjean, book 7:

     Les lendemains de noce sont solitaires. On respecte le recueillement des heureux. Et aussi un peu leur sommeil attardé.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (colloquial) party, knees-up

Derived terms

• faire la noce

See also

• mariage

Further reading

• “noce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cône, once

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nucem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. Cognate with Sicilian nuci.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Hyphenation: nó‧ce

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Noun

noce f (plural noci, diminutive nocìna, augmentative nocióna)

1. walnut (fruit)

   Meronyms: gheriglio, guscio, mallo

2. (botany) nut
3. (archery) nut lock (part of a crossbow)
4. nut (tumbler of a gunlock)
5. (spinning) a part of a spindle
6. (typography) synonym of castelletto
7. (nautical) the thicker part at the end of masts and yardarms
8. a particular size for solid combustibles
9. (butchery) top round inside

   Synonyms: (northern Italy) fesa, (regional) rosa, (regional) rosetta, scannello, soccoscio, sottocoscio, (central Italy) tracoscio

Derived terms

• noce da burro
• noce del Brasile
• noce del Pará
• noce del Queensland
• noce delle Maldive
• noce di acagiù
• noce di areca
• noce di betel
• noce di burro
• noce di cocco
• noce di cola
• noce di galla
• noce di hickory
• noce di pecan
• noce di sovari
• noce di zimbro
• noce metella
• noce moscata
• noce vomica
• nocino
• pesca noce

Related terms

• noceto
• nocciolo

Noun

noce m (plural noci)

1. (botany, uncountable) walnut
2. a walnut tree
3. (uncountable) walnut (wood)

   Hypernym: legno

Derived terms

• noce americano
• noce delle Molucche
• noce di bankul
• noce di terra
• noce nero
• nocino

Adjective

noce (invariable)

1. walnut (having a dark brown colour/color)

Further reading

• noce on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• noce¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• noce² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Ceno, ceno, ceno-, cenò, ocne, once

Ladino

Noun

noce f (Hebrew spelling נוג׳י)

1. (Romania) alternative spelling of noche
   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 11:

     En mi corason esta tu memoria santa
     Dia i noce de mi no se aparta

     In my heart lies your holy memory, day and night it separates not from me.

Latin

Verb

nocē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of noceō

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈnoːt͡ʃə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊːt͡ʃ]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin nucem.

Noun

noce f (plural nuce)

1. nut

Etymology 2

Likely a palatalized variant of Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ). Cognate with Italian nuca.

Noun

noce f (plural nuce)

1. (anatomy) clipping of noce d"o cuollo: nape

   Synonym: cuzzèttu

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1297: “il noce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “noce”, in Schedario Napoletano

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀦𑁄𑀘𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• नोचे (Devanagari script)
• নোচে (Bengali script)
• නොචෙ (Sinhalese script)
• နောစေ or ၼေႃၸေ (Burmese script)
• โนเจ (Thai script)
• ᨶᩮᩣᨧᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂນເຈ (Lao script)
• នោចេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄚𑄮𑄌𑄬 (Chakma script)

Etymology

no (not) +‎ ce (if). Cognate with Sanskrit नो चेद् (no ced, “if not”)

Particle

noce

1. if not, unless

Usage notes

Also written as two words. The collocation clarifies the meaning of the word no.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.t͡sɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛ
• Syllabification: no‧ce

Noun

noce f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of noc