coque

See also: Coque and -coque

English

Etymology

From French coque (literally “shell”). Doublet of coco.

Noun

coque (plural coques)

1. A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
2. (botany) Obsolete form of coccus.
   • 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, A natural arrangement of British Plants, page 262:

     Fig. 22. One of the coques cut transversely; seeds parietal, very numerous, small, spread all over the internal surface of the coque.

Francisco León Zoque

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Noun

coque

1. fish

References

• Engel, Ralph; Allhiser de Engel, Mary; Mateo Alvarez, José (1987), Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French coque (“shell”), from Latin coccum (“berry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔk/

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

Noun

coque f (plural coques)

1. shell (of an animal's egg)
2. the casing of a phone
3. (nautical) hull
4. cockle

Derived terms

• à la coque
• cocard
• fruit à coque
• monocoque

Related terms

• cocon
• coquer
• coquillage
• coquille
• coquin
• œuf à la coque
• sortir de sa coque

Descendants

• → English: coque
• → Italian: coque
• → Portuguese: coque
• →? Romanian: coc

Further reading

• “coque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coque (“egg's shell”). Doublet of cocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

coque f (invariable)

1. only used in uovo alla coque (“soft-boiled egg”)

Latin

Noun

coque

1. vocative singular of coquus

Verb

coque

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coquō

Pipil

Alternative forms

• (Cuisnahuat) coquetzpal

Etymology

Truncated form of coquetzpal. Compare Classical Nahuatl cuauhcuetzpalin (“lizard”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkuke/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɣe/

Noun

coque (plural cohcoque)

1. (Witzapan) iguana

   Ne coque quiza motonalhuia mohmozta ihpac oni tetonti

   The iguana comes out to sun on top of that rock every day

2. (Witzapan) black iguana