coquus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From coquo.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.kʷus/, [ˈkɔkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.kwus/, [ˈkɔːkwus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
coquus m (genitive coquī); second declension
- A cook; person who makes food.
- Grumio in culina delicias multas coxit quando coquus erat.
- Grumio used to cook many delights in the kitchen when he was a cook.
- Grumio in culina delicias multas coxit quando coquus erat.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | coquus | coquī |
Genitive | coquī | coquōrum |
Dative | coquō | coquīs |
Accusative | coquum | coquōs |
Ablative | coquō | coquīs |
Vocative | coque | coquī |
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: cuoco
- Old French:
- French: queux
- Venetian: cógo
- → Middle Dutch: coc
- Dutch: kok
- Afrikaans: kok
- Negerhollands: kokki, koki (from the diminutive)
- → Caribbean Javanese: koki (from the diminutive)
- → French: coq
- → Indonesian: koki (from the diminutive)
- → Malayalam: കോക്കി (kōkki) (from the diminutive)
- → Japanese: コック (kokku)
- → Papiamentu: kòki, kokki (from the diminutive)
- → Russian: кок (kok)
- Dutch: kok
- → Old English: cōc
- → Old High German: choch
References
- “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coquus 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)
- coquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “coquus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “coquus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin