coquus

• coquos (pre-Classical)
• cocus (Late Latin, proscribed)

From coquō +‎ -us.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.kʷus]

coquus m (genitive coquī, feminine coqua); second declension

1. 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.

Second-declension noun.

• “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