coctilia

Latin

Etymology

From the adjective coctilis; the adjective forms are regularly declined; the noun is a substantivisation of the neuter plural, used elliptically for coctilia ligna (literally “dried firewood”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kokˈti.li.a/, [kɔkˈt̪ɪlʲiä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kokˈti.li.a/, [kokˈt̪iːliä]

Adjective

coctilia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of coctilis

Noun

coctilia n pl (genitive coctilium); third declension

(plural only) very dry wood, that burns without smoke

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	coctilia
Genitive	coctilium
Dative	coctilibus
Accusative	coctilia
Ablative	coctilibus
Vocative	coctilia

Synonyms

(very dry wood, that burns without smoke): ligna acapna

References

“coctĭlĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press