coccum
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
coccum n (genitive coccī); second declension
- a scarlet berry of various plants
- a gall of various trees
- the insect, Coccus ilicis, used for producing dye
- a scarlet dye, or the cloth dyed with it, carmine
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | coccum | cocca |
Genitive | coccī | coccōrum |
Dative | coccō | coccīs |
Accusative | coccum | cocca |
Ablative | coccō | coccīs |
Vocative | coccum | cocca |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: cocco
- Old French:
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: coc
- Old Portuguese:
- Sicilian: cocciu
- → Albanian: kokë
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kox
- → English: coccus
- → French: coccus
- → Finnish: kokki
- → Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi)
- → German: Kokke
- → Russian: кокк (kokk)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cocceus
- → Albanian: kuq
References[edit]
- “coccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coccum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- coccum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette