coctile

English

WOTD – 19 September 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin coctilis (“burned, built of burned bricks”), from coquō (“I cook, I roast or dry”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒktɪl/, /ˈkɒktaɪl/
Audio (RP) (file)

Adjective

coctile (not comparable)

Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
- 1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language‎, Coctive, page 130/3:
  Coctive…Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile.
1. of earthenware
  - 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea, translation of original by Willem Bosman, letter XXI, page 437:
    Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone.
  - 1851, “The Age of Honesty”, in The Dublin Review‎, volume XXXI, number lxii, article VIII, page 599:
    The excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn…was brought to light.
  - 1874, J.D. Beglar and A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi‎, page 189:
    Now, these tiles are of the coctile kind, or which have been baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles.”
  - 1995, Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture‎, page 71:
    An oval platform of stone…stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.
2. of bread
  - 1887, “Wallace’s Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, volume XIII, page 365:
    Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage…acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain.
Built of baked bricks.
- 1842, “Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IX, page 682:
  From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.
- 1850, David Urquhart, “chapter 2”, in The Pillars of Hercules‎, volume II, page 145:
  Beyond this region spread dead levels, which…resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides…flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish…to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens.
- 1996, Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers MMDCCLXVI: Thermosense XVIII, page 58:
  The “coctile” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.

Quotations

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coctile.

Related terms

coct
coctible
coctillation
coction
coctive
cocture
concoct

coque
coquicide
coquinate
coquination
decoction

Translations

made by baking or exposure to heat

Swedish: bränd (sv)

built of baked bricks

References

John Boag, A Popular and Complete English Dictionary I (1848), page 250, “Coctile”
NED II (C; 1st ed., 1893), page 580/3, “Coctile, a.”
OED (2nd ed., 1989), “coctile, a.”

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ile]

Adjective

coctile

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of coctilis

References

coctile 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)