coccinus
Latin
Alternative forms
- coccineus
Etymology
From coccum + -īnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkok.ki.nus/, [ˈkɔk.kɪ.nʊs]
Adjective
coccinus (feminine coccina, neuter coccinum); first/second declension
- scarlet, scarlet-dyed
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | coccinus | coccina | coccinum | coccinī | coccinae | coccina | |
| Genitive | coccinī | coccinae | coccinī | coccinōrum | coccinārum | coccinōrum | |
| Dative | coccinō | coccinae | coccinō | coccinīs | coccinīs | coccinīs | |
| Accusative | coccinum | coccinam | coccinum | coccinōs | coccinās | coccina | |
| Ablative | coccinō | coccinā | coccinō | coccinīs | coccinīs | coccinīs | |
| Vocative | coccine | coccina | coccinum | coccinī | coccinae | coccina | |
Derived terms
- coccinella
Descendants
(inherited Romance descendants)
- Aromanian: coatsin
- Ladin: cueciun, chécen
- Romanian: coacin
- Romansch: cotschen, tgietschen
(through the Scientific Latin derivative Coccinella)
- French: coccinelle
- Italian: coccinella
- Translingual: Coccinella
(possible descendants through a derivative form, likely through Spanish cochinilla)
- Azerbaijani: koşenil
- Catalan: cotxinilla
- Danish: cochenille
- Dutch: cochenille
- English: cochineal
- Finnish: kokenilli
- French: cochenille
- German: Koschenille
- Ido: kochenilo
- Italian: cocciniglia
- Polish: koszenila
- Portuguese: cochinilha, cochonilha
- Quechua: khuchinilla
- Russian: кошениль (košenilʹ)
- Spanish: cochinilla
- Swedish: koschenill
- Ukrainian: кошеніль (košenilʹ)
References
- coccinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers