coco

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See also: Coco, cocó, còco, cocô, and coço

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish/(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
  • Homophone: cocoa

Noun

coco (plural cocos)

  1. Coconut palm.
    • 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti‎[1], page 52:
      I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
    • 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. [...] The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
      They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
    • 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World‎[2], page 355:
      The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]
    • 2007, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008‎[3], →ISBN, page 468:
      You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “coco”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Fijian sucu, Tagalog suso, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ū.

Noun

coco

  1. (anatomy) breast

References

“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎[4] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish coco.

Pronunciation

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. coconut

Further reading

French

The name is ultimately from the appearance of a face in the coconut shell.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish. The fruit was originally referred to by the Spanish equivalent of croque-mitaine (“bogeyman”), due to the spooky face-like appearance of the three dots at the end of the shell, which developed in coco.

As in English, the fruit was originally referred to as coco (in the 16th century), but in the 17th (as in English) it became usual to refer to it as a nut, in the form noix de coco (“coconut”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. Fruit of the coconut palm, also called noix de coco
  2. A kind of bean.
  3. (slang) Motor fuel.
  4. (dated) A type of licorice drink, by analogy with coconut milk.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Duplication of initial co-.

Noun

coco m or f (plural cocos)

  1. (informal) Commie (masculine)
  2. (slang) cocaine (feminine)

Etymology 3

Perhaps by contraction of cocorico (“cock-a-doodle-do”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (informal, dated, childish) egg
Synonyms

Etymology 4

Noun

coco m or f (plural cocos)

  1. (informal) Friendly, joking term for a friend; pal, mate, buddy.
    Salut, coco !
    G’day mate!
  2. (informal, derogatory) Aggressive, disdainful term of address, usually preceded by mon, ma, or mes. Roughly punk or buddy, as in “You wanna try, punk?”, or “Hey buddy, what do you think you’re doing?”
    Toi, mon coco, tu vas passer un sale quart d’heure !
    You, buddy, are going to have a miserable quarter hour!
    Vous ne perdez rien pour attendre, mes cocos !
    You’re not losing anything by waiting, punks!

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Latin coccum (“berry; gall; insect; scarlet dye”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔko̝/, /ˈkoko̝/

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. bogeyman
  2. oak gall
  3. coconut
  4. bug; worm
    Synonyms: becho, bicho, verme

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. coco.

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

cocō (present infinitive cocere, perfect active coxī, supine coctum); third conjugation

  1. Alternative form of coquō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cocō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cocō cocis cocit cocimus cocitis cocunt
imperfect cocēbam cocēbās cocēbat cocēbāmus cocēbātis cocēbant
future cocam cocēs cocet cocēmus cocētis cocent
perfect coxī coxistī coxit coximus coxistis coxērunt,
coxēre
pluperfect coxeram coxerās coxerat coxerāmus coxerātis coxerant
future perfect coxerō coxeris coxerit coxerimus coxeritis coxerint
passive present cocor coceris,
cocere 		cocitur cocimur cociminī cocuntur
imperfect cocēbar cocēbāris,
cocēbāre 		cocēbātur cocēbāmur cocēbāminī cocēbantur
future cocar cocēris,
cocēre 		cocētur cocēmur cocēminī cocentur
perfect coctus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect coctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect coctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cocam cocās cocat cocāmus cocātis cocant
imperfect cocerem cocerēs coceret cocerēmus cocerētis cocerent
perfect coxerim coxerīs coxerit coxerīmus coxerītis coxerint
pluperfect coxissem coxissēs coxisset coxissēmus coxissētis coxissent
passive present cocar cocāris,
cocāre 		cocātur cocāmur cocāminī cocantur
imperfect cocerer cocerēris,
cocerēre 		cocerētur cocerēmur cocerēminī cocerentur
perfect coctus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect coctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — coce — — cocite —
future — cocitō cocitō — cocitōte cocuntō
passive present — cocere — — cociminī —
future — cocitor cocitor — — cocuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives cocere coxisse coctūrum esse cocī coctum esse coctum īrī
participles cocēns — coctūrus — coctus cocendus,
cocundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
cocendī cocendō cocendum cocendō coctum coctū

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cocō

  1. dative singular of cocus
  2. ablative singular of cocus

References

Manchu

Romanization

coco

  1. Romanization of ᠴᠣᠴᠣ (coco)

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare French coco.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (Jersey, informal) egg, eggy

Derived terms

Portuguese

coco

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈko.ku/
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Noun

coco m (plural s)

  1. coconut (fruit of coco palm)

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From coco.

Noun

coco (1)

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. coconut
  2. (colloquial) brain; head (because of a slight resemblance to a head)
  3. (colloquial, Chile) testicle
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  2. bogeyman
    Synonym: cuco, hombre del saco

Etymology 3

From Latin coccum.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (entomology) weevil
    Synonym: gorgojo
  2. (bacteriology) coccus
    Synonym: micrococo

Further reading

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