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coqueluche

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French coqueluche.

Noun

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coqueluche (plural coqueluches)

  1. (obsolete) A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head.
    • 1896, Alphonse Mariette, French and English idioms and proverbs: with critical and historical notes[1], page 104:
      The coqueluchon or coqueluche was a kind of hood very generally worn at certain periods of the year, which seems to have given its name to the hooping-cough, because those who were attacked by that illness wore a coqueluche or monk's hood to keep their head warm.
    • 1922, Francis Graham Crookshank, Influenza[2], page 73:
      [] because the sick wore a coqueluche on their heads (as a part of the treatment prescribed) certainly owes its currency to Dr. Short, but he appears to have relied upon the authority of Schenkius []

French

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Etymology

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From earlier coqueluchon (a kind of monk's cowl or hood), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (hood). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (rooster), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɔ.klyʃ/
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Noun

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (pathology) whooping cough
  2. (obsolete, pathology) influenza
  3. (figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")
  4. (figurative) idol, star, darling
  5. (obsolete) coqueluche hood

Derived terms

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  • vol coqueluche (treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms)

Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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Noun

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (Jersey) whooping cough
  2. (Jersey) whelk

Synonyms

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From French coqueluche, from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus. First attested in 1840.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -uʃi
  • Hyphenation: co‧que‧lu‧che

Noun

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coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (pathology) whooping cough (a contagious disease)
    Synonyms: pertússis, tosse convulsa
  2. (figurative, colloquial) craze (a temporary passion for a new amusement or fashion)
    Synonym: febre

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Sérgio Rodrigues (2011 September 22) “A coqueluche surgiu com o sentido de ‘capuz’”, in Veja (in Portuguese), Brazil, retrieved 2023-05-18