cocus

English edit

Noun edit

cocus

Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.

Derived terms edit

cocuswood

Anagrams edit

Cusco

French edit

Adjective edit

cocus

masculine plural of cocu

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kus/, [ˈkɔkʊs̠]

Noun edit

cocus m (genitive cocī); second declension (Late Latin, proscribed)

Alternative form of coquus (“cook”)
- 3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 38:
  coqus^[sic] non cocus
  [The correct form is] coqus,^[sic] not cocus

Usage notes edit

The c-spelling is often limited to endings in u as equivalent to quu, while other forms are spelled with qu. Other scribes retained the c throughout.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cocus	cocī
Genitive	cocī	cocōrum
Dative	cocō	cocīs
Accusative	cocum	cocōs
Ablative	cocō	cocīs
Vocative	coce	cocī

References edit

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