rocchetto

• IPA^(key): /rokˈket.to/
• Rhymes: -etto
• Hyphenation: roc‧chét‧to

From rocca (“distaff”) +‎ -etto^[1]

rocchetto m (plural rocchetti)

1. spool (of thread, or of a fishing rod)

   Synonyms: spoletta, bobina

2. (film) reel
3. (electrical engineering) coil
4. (weaving) shuttle (part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads)

• rocchetta

Borrowed from Medieval Latin roccus.^[2]

rocchetto m (plural rocchetti)

1. (clothing, Roman Catholicism) rochet (garment worn over the choir cassock by cardinals, bishops and certain other dignitaries)

   Synonym: roccetto

•   rocchetto (filo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
•   rocchetto (cattolicesimo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it