coctilia
Latin
Etymology
From the adjective coctilis; the adjective forms are regularly declined; the noun is a substantivisation of the neuter plural, used elliptically for coctilia ligna (literally “dried firewood”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔkˈtɪ.li.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kokˈt̪iː.li.a]
Adjective
coctilia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of coctilis
Noun
coctilia n pl (genitive coctilium); third declension
- (plural only) very dry wood, that burns without smoke
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | coctilia |
| genitive | coctilium |
| dative | coctilibus |
| accusative | coctilia |
| ablative | coctilibus |
| vocative | coctilia |
Synonyms
- (very dry wood, that burns without smoke): ligna acapna
References
- “coctĭlĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press