cocococo

Latin

Alternative forms

• coco, coco
• coco coco

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈko.ko.ko/, [kɔˈkɔkɔkɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈko.ko.ko/, [koˈkɔːkoko]

Interjection

cocococo

1. cock-a-doodle-doo!
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 59:

     Et tu cum esses capo, cocococo, atque cor non habebas.

     And when you were a cockerel, you said cock-a-doodle-doo and didn't have a heart.

References

• “cocococo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press