coquus
Latin
Alternative forms
- coquos
- cocus
Etymology
From coquō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.kʷus/, [ˈkɔkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.kwus/, [ˈkɔːkwus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
coquus m (genitive coquī, feminine coqua); second declension
- 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.
- Grumio in culina delicias multas coxit quando coquus erat.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | coquus | coquī |
| Genitive | coquī | coquōrum |
| Dative | coquō | coquīs |
| Accusative | coquum | coquōs |
| Ablative | coquō | coquīs |
| Vocative | coque | coquī |
Related terms
- coqua
- coquibilis
- coquīnāris
- coquīnārius
- coquīnātōrius
- coquīnō
- coquīnus
- coquitātiō
- coquō
Descendants
- Catalan: coc
- Italian: cuoco
- French: queux
- North Italian:
- Romagnol: cug
- Gascon: còc
- Sicilian: cocu
- Venetian: cógo
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kok (see there for further descendants)
- → Welsh: cog
References
- “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