Etymology

La Rochelle

La Ro·chelle

Today it means: A port city, the capital of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, on the Bay of Biscay, formerly in Poitou-Charentes. Full definition →

Old French rochelle
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromrochelle
  2. English todayLa Rochelle

Unadapted borrowing from French La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle (literally “little rock”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchrochelle all →

RochelleNew Rochelle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.