coche

• IPA^(key): /ˈkot͡ʃe/ [ˈko.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: co‧che

coche m (plural coches)

1. car

• IPA^(key): /kɔʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʃ

From Hungarian kocsi, via German Kutsche or Italian cocchio. Doublet of coach.

coche m (plural coches)

1. stage-coach

• cocher
• louper le coche
• manquer le coche
• mouche du coche
• rater le coche

Inherited from Latin caudica.

coche f (plural coches)

1. (dated) a sort of large boat previously used for transporting passengers and merchandise

From Italian cocca (“nock”).

coche f (plural coches)

1. notch, cut

   Synonym: entaille

2. (modern usage) tick, checkmark (symbol)

When grading assignments and exams in Québec, a checkmark is used to indicate a wrong answer rather than a correct one. A B (short for bon) is used to indicate a correct response. In other uses, it is utilized as in English.

• cocher
• cocheur

• encoche

From cochon.

coche f (plural coches)

1. (dated) sow (female pig)

From verb cocher.

coche

1. inflection of cocher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔt͡ʃe/ [ˈkɔ.t͡ʃɪ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔtʃe
• Hyphenation: co‧che

From French coche.

coche m (plural coches)

1. car

   Synonym: carro

2. coach
3. stage-coach
4. bus

   Synonym: autobús

Onomatopoeic

coche

1. voice used to scare the pigs

• cocho (“pigsty, pig”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coche”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coche”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coche”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “coche”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “coche” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

co +‎ che

coche

1. how (in what manner)
2. as, like

Borrowed from French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi, from Kocs.

• Hyphenation: co‧che

coche m (plural coches)

1. coach (wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power)
2. (Portugal, informal) a bit

   Synonyms: bocado, (Portugal, informal) beca

• →? Gujarati: કોચ (koc)

coche

1. fish

• Austin Krumholz, Jeanne, Kalstrom Dolson, Marjorie, Hernández Ayuso, Miguel (1995) Diccionario popoloca de San Juan Atzingo, Puebla (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 33)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Tucson, AZ., E.U.A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 17

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi, in reference to Kocs, a village in Hungary where the first horse-drawn vehicles with an innovative suspension system were manufactured in the 15th century. Doublet of coach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkot͡ʃe/ [ˈko.t͡ʃe]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: co‧che

coche m (plural coches)

1. (chiefly Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Spain) car, automobile

   Synonyms: automóvil, (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela) carro, (Andes, Cono Sur, Philippines) auto

   Mi coche tiene una avería.

   My car has broken down.

2. carriage, coach (a wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power)

   Synonym: carruaje

3. (rail transport) car (a passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train)
4. (Rioplatense, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico) ellipsis of coche de niño (“baby carriage”)
5. (Guatemala, slang) clipping of cochino (“pig”)

• Chavacano: coche
• → Basque: kotxe
• → Bikol Central: kotse
• → Cebuano: kotse
• → Ilocano: kotse
• → Sambali: kotsi
• → Tagalog: kotse

• “coche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• checo