coctile

English

WOTD – 19 September 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin coctilis (“burned, built of burned bricks”), from coquō (“I cook, I roast or dry”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒktɪl/, /ˈkɒktaɪl/

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Adjective

coctile (not comparable)

1. Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
   • 1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language‎^[1], Coctive, page 130/3:

     Coctive…Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile.

   1. of earthenware
      • 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea‎^[2], translation of original by Willem Bosman, letter XXI, page 437:

        Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone.

      • 1851, “The Age of Honesty”, in The Dublin Review‎^[3], volume XXXI, number lxii, article VIII, page 599:

        The excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn…was brought to light.

      • 1874, J.D. Beglar, A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi‎^[4], page 189:

        Now, these tiles are of the coctile kind, or which have been baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles.”

      • 1995, Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture‎^[5], page 71:

        An oval platform of stone…stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.

   2. of bread
      • 1887, “Wallace’s Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[6], volume XIII, page 365:

        Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage…acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain.

2. Built of baked bricks.
   • 1842, “Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IX, page 682:

     From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.

   • 1850, David Urquhart, chapter 2, in The Pillars of Hercules‎^[7], volume II, book iv, page 145:

     Beyond this region spread dead levels, which…resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides…flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish…to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens.

   • 1996, Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers MMDCCLXVI: Thermosense XVIII, page 58:

     The “coctile” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coctile.

Related terms

• coct
• coctible
• coctillation
• coction
• coctive
• cocture
• concoct

• coque
• coquicide
• coquinate
• coquination
• decoction

Translations

made by baking or exposure to heat

• Swedish: bränd (sv)

built of baked bricks

References

• John Boag, A Popular and Complete English Dictionary I (1848), page 250, “Coctile”
• NED II (C; 1st ed., 1893), page 580/3, “Coctile, a.”
• OED (2nd ed., 1989), “coctile, a.”

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ile]

Adjective

coctile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of coctilis

References

• coctile 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)