coq

See also: Coq, çoq, and Coq.

English

Etymology

French

Noun

coq (plural coqs)

1. A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
   • 1897, Ladies' home journal: Volume 15:

     […] with a flat Tam crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.

   • 1921, Millinery trade review: Volume 46:

     A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.

   • 2010, Deborah Davis, Party of the Century:

     It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. Coqs, the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Homophones: coqs, coque, coques

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French coq, from Old French coc, from Late Latin coccus, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz. Cognate with English cock, Dutch kok, Danish kok, Icelandic kokkur.

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

1. male chicken, rooster, cockerel, cock
   • 1916, “Verdun, on ne passe pas!”, performed by Eugène Joullot and Jack Cazoll:

     Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne: Cocorico, debout petits soldats!

     But out of the blue, the Gallic rooster trumpets: cock-a-doodle-do, arise little soldiers!

Derived terms

• cocard
• combat de coqs
• comme un coq en pâte
• coq au vin
• coq de bruyère
• passer du coq à l’âne/sauter du coq à l’âne

 

Descendants

• → Esperanto: koko (through merger with English cock)

See also

• poule

Etymology 2

According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, the word would be borrowed in 1671, "at the time when Dutch navigation dominated", from Dutch kok, from Latin coquus. But the Dictionnaire du moyen français, referring to the attestations in 1354 and in 1491-1492, makes it a doublet of queux, directly from Latin coquus. See also feminine forms in Old French coquesse, coque.

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (rare) a cook

   Synonym: cuisinier

Further reading

• “coq”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• coq2 on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French coc (“cock, rooster”).

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (Jersey) tap

Derived terms

• coq à ieau caûde (“hot water tap”)
• coq à ieau fraide (“cold water tap”)

Etymology 2

Clipping of coquelicot

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

1. (Guernsey) poppy

Synonyms

• coquelicot