coctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of coquō (“cook, ripen”).

Participle

coctus (feminine cocta, neuter coctum); first/second-declension participle

1. cooked, having been cooked.
2. ripened, having been ripened.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	coctus	cocta	coctum		coctī	coctae	cocta
Genitive	coctī	coctae	coctī		coctōrum	coctārum	coctōrum
Dative	coctō		coctō		coctīs
Accusative	coctum	coctam	coctum		coctōs	coctās	cocta
Ablative	coctō	coctā	coctō		coctīs
Vocative	cocte	cocta	coctum		coctī	coctae	cocta

Derived terms

• coctura

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: coptu
  • Romanian: copt
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cotto ⇒ biscotto
  • Sicilian: cottu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: cuet, cott
  • Piedmontese: cheuit
  • Romansch: cotg
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • French: cuit ⇒ biscuit
  • Norman: cuit, tchuit
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cuit
  • Occitan: cuèch, cuèit, cueit, còit
• Ibero-Romance
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: coito
    • Galician: coito ⇒ biscoito
    • Portuguese: coito (dated) ⇒ biscoito
  • Old Spanish: cocho
    • ⇒ Spanish: bizcocho
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: cottu ⇒ viscottu
• → Proto-Brythonic: *koɨθ
  • Welsh: coeth

References

• “coctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coctus 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)
• coctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.