coccum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːum]

Noun

coccum n (genitive coccī); second declension

1. a scarlet berry of various plants
2. a gall of various trees
3. the insect, Coccus ilicis, used for producing dye
4. a scarlet dye, or the cloth dyed with it

Declension

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

• coccinus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: cocã, coacã
• Italian: cocco
• Old French:
  • French: coque
    • → English: coque
    • → Italian: coque
    • → Portuguese: coque
    • →? Romanian: coc
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: coc
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: coco
• Sicilian: cocciu
• → Albanian: kokë
• → English: coccus
• → French: coccus
• → Finnish: kokki
• → Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi)
• → German: Kokke
• → Russian: кокк (kokk)
• → Welsh: coch
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cocceus
  • → Albanian: kuq

References

• “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.