cossus
See also: Cossus
French
Adjective
cossus
- masculine plural of cossu
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain[1]; proposed derivations include:
- From a root common to Ancient Greek σκίδνημι (skídnēmi, “to disperse”) and Lithuanian kedeti (“to burst”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognates include cortex (“bark”) and Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”), with the possible cognate careō (“I lack”).
Noun
cossus m (genitive cossī); second declension
- woodworm (worm or grub found in wood)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cossus | cossī |
| Genitive | cossī | cossōrum |
| Dative | cossō | cossīs |
| Accusative | cossum | cossōs |
| Ablative | cossō | cossīs |
| Vocative | cosse | cossī |
Descendants
- Albanian: koshëz
- Asturian: cosu (in part), coxíu, guxán (uncertain)
- Friulian: cos
- Galician: coxo, coxillo
- Italian: cosso
- Romanian: coș
- Spanish: coso, cojijo, gusano (uncertain)
- Translingual: Cossus
References
- “cossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cossus 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)
- cossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “cossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cossus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “cossus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 281