rocket
Senso (Inglese)
Concetti
sinonimi
garden rocket
sky-rocket
soar up
shoot upwards
Eruca vesicaria sativa
Eruca sativa
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
From Italian rocchetta, 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”).
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