coquus

Latin

Alternative forms

• coquos
• cocus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti

Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō

Latin coquō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Latin -us

Latin coquus

From coquō +‎ -us.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kʷus/, [ˈkɔkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kwus/, [ˈkɔːkwus]

Noun

coquus m (genitive coquī, feminine coqua); second declension

1. A cook; person who makes food.

   Grumio in culina delicias multas coxit quando coquus erat.

   Grumio used to cook many delights in the kitchen when he was a cook.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coquus	coquī
Genitive	coquī	coquōrum
Dative	coquō	coquīs
Accusative	coquum	coquōs
Ablative	coquō	coquīs
Vocative	coque	coquī

Related terms

• coqua
• coquibilis
• coquīnāris
• coquīnārius
• coquīnātōrius
• coquīnō
• coquīnus
• coquitātiō
• coquō

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: coc
• Italian: cuoco
• French: queux
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cogo
  • Romagnol: cug
  • Venetian: cógo
• Gascon: còc
• Sicilian: cocu
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kok (see there for further descendants)
• → Welsh: cog
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cociō
  • Catalan: cosó

References

• “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coquus 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)
• coquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “coquus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coquus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin