bouc

Signification (English)

1. billy goat
2. goatee

Synonyms

chèvre

🐐

barbiche

bélier

🐏

bouquetin

bouquin

📖

chevreau

🧒

chevreuil

coureur

🏃

flirteur

galant

chevre

bique

biquet

🧒

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/buk/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen français: bouc

Inherited from ancien français: buc

Inherited from latin: buccus

Cognate with Old Dutch: buck

Cognate with Middle Breton: bouch

Cognate with Old Cornish: boch

Cognate with ancien irlandais: boc

In summary

Inherited from Middle French bouc (“male goat”), from Old French buc (“male goat”), from Latin buccus, perhaps from the confluence of Frankish *bukk (“male goat”) (compare Old Dutch buck (“male goat”)), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”), and Gaulish *bukkos (“male goat”) (compare Middle Breton bouch (“goat”), Old Cornish boch (“goat”), Old Irish boc (“buck”)), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“goat, buck, ram”). More at buck.

Phrases

Lidice servit de bouc émissaire .

Lidice served as a scapegoat.