Etymology

broche

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French broche ← Old French broche ← Vulgar Latin brocca
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  1. Proto-Celtic*brokkos
  2. Gaulish*brokkosbor.?
  3. Latinbroccus
  4. Vulgar Latinbrocca
  5. Old Frenchbroche
  6. Frenchbroche
  7. English todaybroche

Borrowed from French broche.

Words from the same roots

Frenchbroche all →

broché

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.