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coquus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
    Proto-Indo-European *-eti
    Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti
    Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō
    Latin coquō
    Proto-Indo-European *-os
    Proto-Italic *-os
    Latin -us
    Latin coquus

    From coquō +‎ -us.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    coquus m (genitive coquī, feminine coqua); second declension

    1. A cook; person who makes food.
      Grumio in culina delicias multas coxit quando coquus erat.
      Grumio used to cook many delights in the kitchen when he was a cook.

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    More information singular, plural ...

    Descendants

    Descendants
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: cuoco
      • Sicilian: cocu
    • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Romance
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cociō
    • Borrowings:
      • → Proto-West Germanic: *kok (see there for further descendants)
      • → Welsh: cog

    References

    • “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “coquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "coquus", 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)
    • “coquus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “coquus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “coquus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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