coco
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)
- 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.
- 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; […]
References
- ^ 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
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
Pronunciation
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
Related terms
Further reading
- “coco” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
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)
- Fruit of the coconut palm, also called noix de coco
- A kind of bean.
- (slang) Motor fuel.
- (dated) A type of licorice drink, by analogy with coconut milk.
Synonyms
- (fuel): carburant
Hypernyms
- (bean): haricot
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Duplication of initial co-.
Noun
coco m or f (plural cocos)
Etymology 3
Perhaps by contraction of cocorico (“cock-a-doodle-do”).
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
Synonyms
- (egg): œuf
Etymology 4
Noun
coco m or f (plural cocos)
- (informal) Friendly, joking term for a friend; pal, mate, buddy.
- Salut, coco !
- G’day mate!
- (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
- “coco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin coccum (“berry; gall; insect; scarlet dye”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
Derived terms
- coco de luz (“glowworm”)
References
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.koː/, [ˈkɔkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ko/, [ˈkɔːko]
Verb
cocō (present infinitive cocere, perfect active coxī, supine coctum); third conjugation
- Alternative form of coquō
Conjugation
Noun
(deprecated template usage) cocō
References
- “coco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coco 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)
Manchu
Romanization
coco
- 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)
Derived terms
- cocotchi (“eggcup”)
Portuguese
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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Audio (BR): (file)
Noun
coco m (plural s)
- coconut (fruit of coco palm)
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From coco.
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
- coconut
- (colloquial) brain; head (because of a slight resemblance to a head)
- (colloquial, Chile) testicle
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”).
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
- bogeyman
- Synonym: cuco, hombre del saco
Etymology 3
Noun
coco m (plural cocos)
- (entomology) weevil
- Synonym: gorgojo
- (bacteriology) coccus
- Synonym: micrococo
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