dok

Senso (Inglese)

dock

Concetti

darsena

bacino di carenaggio

dock

porticciolo

sinonimi

droogdok

haventje

Traduzioni

dock

Dock

doca

dock

προσγείωση

docks

dry dock

embarkation point

wharf

landing place

drydock

bassin

darse

cale sèche

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɔk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da olandese medio: docke

Affine Middle Low German: docke

Affine italiano: doccia

Affine olandese medio: docke

Affine norvegese: dokk

Affine islandese: dökk

Affine svedese: dank

In summary

From Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour, roadstead”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Middle Low German docke (“dock”), borrowed from the Middle Dutch.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”).
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic/Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). If so, related to Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Old Icelandic dökk, also dökð (“pit, pool”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”).