"rocchetta" meaning in Italian

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Noun

IPA: /rokˈket.ta/ Forms: rocchette [plural]
Rhymes: -etta Etymology: From Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴. For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). Etymology templates: {{inh|it|roa-oit|rocchetto|lit=a bobbin|t=rocket}} Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), {{der|it|lng|rocko|t=spinning wheel}} Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), {{der|it|gmw-pro|*rokkō}} Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, {{der|it|gem-pro|*rukkô|t=a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread}} Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”), {{cog|goh|rocco}} Old High German rocco, {{cog|de|Rocken||a distaff}} German Rocken (“a distaff”), {{gloss|"a distaff"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Rocken</i> (“a distaff”)}} ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), {{cog|sv|rock||a distaff}} Swedish rock (“a distaff”), {{cog|is|rokkur||a distaff}} Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), {{cog|enm|rocke||a distaff}} Middle English rocke (“a distaff”), {{m+|la|fūsus||spindle, spinning wheel}} Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”) Head templates: {{it-noun|f}} rocchetta f (plural rocchette)
  1. (military) incendiary rocket Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-rocchetta-it-noun-MEnkxGLl Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Military Topics: government, military, politics, war

Inflected forms

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        "3": "",
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