bocce

English

Alternative forms

• (the sport): boccie, bocci

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bocce.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bŏchʹ-i, IPA^(key): /ˈbɑt͡ʃi/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

bocce (countable and uncountable, plural bocces)

1. (sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court, or informally, as a lawn game.
2. (sports, countable) One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.
   • 2012, Victoria Rowell, Paul Tukey, Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games, →ISBN:

     The object is throw or roll the bocces as close as possible to the pallino.

   • 2013 February 6, Brian Messenger, “Bocce balls are rolling”, in Eagle-Tribune:

     The side with their bocces closest to the pallino earns points.

   • 2013 April 30, Paul Haigh, “Bocce star to represent Australia”, in Liverpool City Champion:

     When he first started we had to buy a smaller set of bocces because his hands were small.

Translations

A game similar to bowls or pétanque

• Catalan: botxes (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 意大利式室外地滾球戲, 意大利式室外地滚球戏 (Yìdàlì shì shìwài dìgǔnqiú xì), 硬地滾球, 硬地滚球 (Yìngdìgǔnqiú)

• Finnish: bocce
• French: bocce (fr) pl
• German: Boccia (de)
• Hungarian: bocsa (hu)
• Italian: bocce (it) f pl
• Japanese: スポールブール (supōrubūru)
• Macedonian: боќање n (boḱanje)
• Portuguese: bocha (pt) f
• Russian: бо́чче (ru) (bóčče)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: bȍćānje n

• Spanish: bochas (es) f pl

See also

• boccia

Italian

Alternative forms

• boccie (misspelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -ɔttʃe
• Hyphenation: bòc‧ce

Noun

bocce f pl

1. plural of boccia
2. bowls (game)

Related terms

• boccino
• bocciodromo
• boccista

Anagrams

• becco, beccò

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bocce.

Noun

bocce n (uncountable)

1. bocce

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bocce	bocceul
genitive-dative	bocce	bocceului
vocative	bocceule

References

• bocce in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN