coccum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate 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
Old French:
- French: coque
  - → English: coque
  - → Italian: coque
  - → Portuguese: coque
  - →? Romanian: coc
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: coco
- Portuguese: coco, côco
  - → English: coco
  - → Italian: cocco
    - → Middle French: coche
      - French: coco
  - → Spanish: coco, coca, cucuy, cuco, cuca, cucu, cucuí
    - → English: coco
    - → Middle French: coco
      - French: coco
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: coc
Sicilian: cocciu
→ Albanian: kokë
→ Italian: cocco
→ Proto-Brythonic: *kox
- Cornish: kogh
- Welsh: coch
⇒ New Latin: coccus
- → Catalan: coc
- → English: coccus
- → French: coccus
- → Georgian: კოკი (ḳoḳi)
- → German: Kokke
- → Italian: cocco
- → Portuguese: coco
- → Romanian: coc
- → Russian: кокк (kokk)
- → Spanish: coco
- → Swedish: kocker
  - → Finnish: kokki
⇒ 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.

Old English

Noun

coccum

dative plural of cocc

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