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A user submission cites Rocca as a rare feminine variant of Rocco and though it's logically constructed I was wondering (1) if it was accurate and had some history of usage, and (2) if anyone knew other feminine names of the same origin or accepted feminizations of related male names. I searched for the meaning "hrok" and found nothing else. To relay everything that BtN has about Rocco and is relatives:
ROCCO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Italian form of a Germanic name derived from the element hrok meaning "rest". This was name of a 14th-century saint who nursed victims of the plague but eventually contracted the disease himself. He is the patron saint of the sick.
ROC m Catalan
ROCH m French, Polish
ROCHUS m German, Dutch
ROCKY m English
ROK m Slovene
ROKUS m Frisian
ROQUE m Spanish, Portuguese
Thanks for your help. :-)
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ROCCO
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Italian form of a Germanic name derived from the element hrok meaning "rest". This was name of a 14th-century saint who nursed victims of the plague but eventually contracted the disease himself. He is the patron saint of the sick.
ROC m Catalan
ROCH m French, Polish
ROCHUS m German, Dutch
ROCKY m English
ROK m Slovene
ROKUS m Frisian
ROQUE m Spanish, Portuguese
Thanks for your help. :-)
Chris Onstad
www.achewood.com
This message was edited 2/21/2008, 10:06 AM
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Some people seem to see Rochelle as deriving from the same root word hrok:
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/r/rochelle.html
By the way, one of the German standard reference works about given names, from the "Duden Verlag", gives another etymology for Rocco:
"Italian Rocco, from German Rochus, from Old High German Roho, from the Old High German word 'rohon' 'to roar, to shout' " (as for example in shouting war cries during battle).
Unfortunately that reference work does not list Rochelle to confirm (or contradict) other sources that see the name as having the same origin...
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/r/rochelle.html
By the way, one of the German standard reference works about given names, from the "Duden Verlag", gives another etymology for Rocco:
"Italian Rocco, from German Rochus, from Old High German Roho, from the Old High German word 'rohon' 'to roar, to shout' " (as for example in shouting war cries during battle).
Unfortunately that reference work does not list Rochelle to confirm (or contradict) other sources that see the name as having the same origin...
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Interesting!
Thank you for sharing that. Given that the write-up for Rocco on this site calls it the "Italian form of a Germanic name," I was curious about how much further the "Germanic name" origin could be followed. Rochus didn't yield any additional information so I'm very happy that you could help fill in that informational gap for me. :-)
I see from your signature's link, www.aboutnames.ch, that Rocco is" from the Old High German name 'Roho' which was a short form of names like 'Rochbert' that are all but forgotten today." Do you know anything about Rochbert? That's a completely new name to me.
Thank you for sharing that. Given that the write-up for Rocco on this site calls it the "Italian form of a Germanic name," I was curious about how much further the "Germanic name" origin could be followed. Rochus didn't yield any additional information so I'm very happy that you could help fill in that informational gap for me. :-)
I see from your signature's link, www.aboutnames.ch, that Rocco is" from the Old High German name 'Roho' which was a short form of names like 'Rochbert' that are all but forgotten today." Do you know anything about Rochbert? That's a completely new name to me.
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I found the reference to the name 'Rochbert' in the 'Rocco' entry of the Duden book that I mentioned. Before that I did't know the name myself.
Rochbert would be one of the many many German/Germanic two-element names, with 'rohon' as the first element and 'beraht' (bright) as the second element. There are many -bert names like Robert or Albert still in use today, and there must be a large number of such names that fell out of favor a long time ago already, like this Rochbert.
Rochbert would be one of the many many German/Germanic two-element names, with 'rohon' as the first element and 'beraht' (bright) as the second element. There are many -bert names like Robert or Albert still in use today, and there must be a large number of such names that fell out of favor a long time ago already, like this Rochbert.
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What puzzles me
is that it seems like it would be so easy to feminize, and that there hardly seems to be a name of that description that hasn't been!
Thank you for your insight into a population where it is well used. I've never actually met a Rocco and its popularity here is apparently low (in the US), so I don't have any 'real life' observations to go by.
is that it seems like it would be so easy to feminize, and that there hardly seems to be a name of that description that hasn't been!
Thank you for your insight into a population where it is well used. I've never actually met a Rocco and its popularity here is apparently low (in the US), so I don't have any 'real life' observations to go by.
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