cuculla

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cucūlla. Doublet of cogulla.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kuˈku.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kuˈku.ʎa/

Noun

cuculla f (plural cuculles)

1. (architecture) spire

Further reading

• “cuculla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈkuːl.la/, [kʊˈkuːlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈkul.la/, [kuˈkulːä]

Noun

cucūlla f (genitive cucūllae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Alternative form of cucullus

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cucūlla	cucūllae
Genitive	cucūllae	cucūllārum
Dative	cucūllae	cucūllīs
Accusative	cucūllam	cucūllās
Ablative	cucūllā	cucūllīs
Vocative	cucūlla	cucūllae

Descendants

• → Albanian: kukull
• Catalan: cogulla, → cuculla
• Czech: kukla
• → Old English: cugele, cūle, cufle
  • Middle English: coule
    • English: cowl
    • Scots: coul, cool
• Old French: cuoule
  • French: coule, → cuculle
• → Greek: κούκλα (koúkla), κουκούλα (koukoúla)
  • → Russian: кукла (kukla)

• Italian: cocolla
• → Polish: kukła
• Old Occitan: cogola
  • → Old French: cogole
    • French: cagoule
      • → English: cagoule
• Old Portuguese: cogula
  • Galician: cugula
• Sicilian: coḍḍa
• Spanish: cogulla

References

• “cuculla”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• cuculla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette