Cocles

From cocles (“one-eyed or half-blind person”), possibly from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “cyclops”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.kɫɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.kles]
• Homophone: cocles

Cocles m sg (genitive Coclitis); third declension

1. One-Eyed, an agnomen

   Publius Horatius Cocles

    

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• French: Coclès

• “Cō̆cles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cocles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 2 Cŏclēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “332/3”
• “Cocles” on page 341/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.