coccum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.kum/, [ˈkɔkːum]

Noun

coccum n (genitive coccī); second declension

1. a scarlet berry of various plants
2. a gall of various trees
3. the insect, Coccus ilicis, used for producing dye
4. a scarlet dye, or the cloth dyed with it, carmine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	coccum	cocca
genitive	coccī	coccōrum
dative	coccō	coccīs
accusative	coccum	cocca
ablative	coccō	coccīs
vocative	coccum	cocca

Derived terms

• coccinus

Descendants

• >? Aromanian: cocã, coacã
• Catalan: coc
• Old French: coque
  • French: coque (see there for further descendants)
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: coco
  • Portuguese: coco (see there for further descendants)
• Sicilian: cocciu
• Borrowings
  • →? Albanian: kokë
  • → Italian: cocco
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kox
    • Cornish: kogh
    • Welsh: coch
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cocceus
  • → Albanian: kuq
• ⇒ 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

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

1. dative plural of cocc