coccum

Latin

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    coccum n (genitive coccī); second declension

    1. a scarlet berry of various plants
    2. a gall of various trees
    3. the insect, Coccus ilicis, used for producing dye
    4. a scarlet dye, or the cloth dyed with it, carmine

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    singular plural
    nominative coccum cocca
    genitive coccī coccōrum
    dative coccō coccīs
    accusative coccum cocca
    ablative coccō coccīs
    vocative coccum cocca

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • >? Aromanian: cocã, coacã
    • Catalan: coc
    • Old French: coque
      • French: coque (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Galician: coco
      • Portuguese: coco (see there for further descendants)
    • Sicilian: cocciu
    • Borrowings
      • →? Albanian: kokë
      • → Italian: cocco
      • → Proto-Brythonic: *kox
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cocceus
      • → Albanian: kuq
    • ⇒ New Latin: coccus
      • → Catalan: coc
      • → English: coccus
      • → French: coccus
      • → Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi)
      • → German: Kokke
      • → Italian: cocco
      • → Portuguese: coco
      • → Romanian: coc
      • → Russian: кокк (kokk)
      • → Spanish: coco
      • → Swedish: kocker

    References

    • “coccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “coccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "coccum", 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)
    • coccum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Old English

    Noun

    coccum

    1. dative plural of cocc
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