Origin and history of hoc

From the Latin phrase hoc ille "yes," literally "this he, so he" (did or said)....Wright, "A History of French Literature," Haskell House, 1969] Thus the o is from Latin hoc "this," and the rest of the...

Perhaps related to French hoquet "shepherd's staff, crook," diminutive of Old French hoc "hook."...

of France," literally "the language of 'yes,' " from oc, the word used south of the Loire for "yes," which is from Latin hoc...

French avec "with" was originally avoc, from Vulgar Latin *abhoc, from apud hoc, literally "with this."...

1620s); a sham-Latin invocation used by jugglers, perhaps based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc...

"bent or angled piece of metal or other substance used to catch or hold something," Old English hoc "hook, angle," perhaps...

One has, among many others, Hoc alphabetum ... a nabse, from misdivision of an ABC (and pronouncing it as a word), and Hic...

Middle English springen, from Old English springan "to leap, leap up, jump;" of a fountain, spring, etc., "burst forth;" also "fly up; spread, grow" (class III strong verb; past tense sprang, past participle sprungen). This is from Proto-Germanic *sprenganan (source also of Old N

mid-14c., bede, "prayer bead," from Old English gebed "prayer," with intensive or collective prefix *ge- + Proto-Germanic *bidam "entreaty." This reconstructed word is also the source of Middle Dutch bede, Old High German beta, German bitte, Gothic bida "prayer, request," which a

mid-13c., monie, "funds, means, anything convertible into money;" c. 1300, "coinage, coin, metal currency," from Old French monoie "money, coin, currency; change" (Modern French monnaie), from Latin moneta "place for coining money, mint; coined money, money, coinage," from Moneta