coccum
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːum]
Noun
coccum n (genitive coccī); second declension
- a scarlet berry of various plants
- a gall of various trees
- the insect, Coccus ilicis, used for producing dye
- a scarlet dye, or the cloth dyed with it, carmine
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | coccum | cocca |
| Genitive | coccī | coccōrum |
| Dative | coccō | coccīs |
| Accusative | coccum | cocca |
| Ablative | coccō | coccīs |
| Vocative | coccum | cocca |
Derived terms
- coccinus
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: cocã, coacã
- Italian: cocco
- Old French:
- French: coque
- → English: coque
- → Italian: coque
- → Portuguese: coque
- French: coque
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: coc
- Old Portuguese:
- Galician: coco
- Portuguese: coco
- Sicilian: cocciu
- → Albanian: kokë
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kox
- Cornish: kogh
- Welsh: coch
- → English: coccus
- → French: coccus
- → Finnish: kokki
- → Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi)
- → German: Kokke
- → Russian: кокк (kokk)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cocceus
- → Albanian: kuq
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