cucus
French
Adjective
cucus
- masculine plural of cucu
Latin
Etymology
Found in Plautus. Compare cuculus and Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux). Possibly onomatopoeic also.
Noun
cucus m (genitive cucī); second declension
- daw, jackdaw
- cuckoo
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cucus | cucī |
Genitive | cucī | cucōrum |
Dative | cucō | cucīs |
Accusative | cucum | cucōs |
Ablative | cucō | cucīs |
Vocative | cuce | cucī |
Descendants
- Asturian: cucu
- Catalan: cuc
- Friulian: cuc
- Galician: cuco
- Portuguese: cuco
- Romanian: cuc
- Sicilian: cuccu
- Spanish: cuco
References
- “cucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cucus 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)
- cucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette