bosc

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔsk]

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bosc m (plural boscs or boscos)

1. forest; wood; woods

• Bosch

• selva

• “bosc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bosc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bosc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bosc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bosc m (plural boscs)

1. wood, forest

• selve

Borrowed from English box.

bosc m (plural boscs)

1. (Jersey) box

• boiso, boscu

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bosc m (oblique plural boscs, nominative singular boscs, nominative plural bosc)

1. wood; woods
   • 12th century, Jaufré Rudel, Lanquan lo temps renovelha

     E quand lo bosc reverdeya

     And when the woods become green again

• Occitan:
  • Gascon: bòsc (Aranais)
  • Languedocien: bòsc
  • Provençal: bos (Mistralienne), boasc (Niçois), bòsc (Occitane)
  • Vivaro-Alpin: bòsc