# cloche
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -əʊʃ

### Noun

cloche (plural cloches)
* A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
** 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 21:Old window screens were shade cloth; flattened cardboard and carpet offcuts were weed matting; plastic bottles, when sliced in half, became little cloches to fit over seedlings to keep them warm.
* A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
    Synonym: cloche hat
** 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic‎:Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.
* A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
* (aviation, historical) An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc.

#### See also

* (bell-shaped glass cover): bell jar

## Franco-Provençal
### Noun

cloche (Old Fribourgeois)
* Alternative form of clloche (“bell”)

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “clocca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 790

## French
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (see also Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), ultimately imitative. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klɔʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)
* bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
* a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
* a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
* cloche#English (tableware cover, often resembling a bell)
* (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

#### Derived terms

* cloche de plongée
* déménager à la cloche de bois
* sauvé par la cloche
* se taper la cloche
* son de cloche

### Adjective

cloche (plural cloches)
* (colloquial) clumsy, stupid
    Synonyms: maladroit, lourdaud, empoté, manche

#### Derived terms

* à cloche-pied

### Verb

cloche
* inflection of clocher:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English clutch.

#### Noun

cloche f (invariable)
* joystick
* gear lever (in a car)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”).

#### Noun

cloche f (invariable)
* cloche hat

## Middle English
### Noun

cloche
* Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

## Middle French
### Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

### Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)
* bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

## Old French
### Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca, probably from Celtic, compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg, all from Proto-Celtic *klokkos; ultimately imitative.

### Noun

cloche oblique singular, f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)
* bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* cloch, clutch

### Etymology

Borrowed from English clutch.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklot͡ʃe/ [ˈklo.t͡ʃe]
* Rhymes: -otʃe
* Syllabification: clo‧che

### Noun

cloche m (plural cloches)
* clutch
    Synonym: embrague

### Further reading

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