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cucullus
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English
Etymology
Noun
cucullus (plural cuculli)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
A reduplicative form of Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Latin cūlus, Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”) and indirectly Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to cutis (“hide”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊˈkuːl.lʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kuˈkul.lus]
Noun
cucullus m (genitive cucullī); second declension
- a covering for the head, hood, cowl
- 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 5.14.6-7:
- illinc cucullō prōspicit caput tēctus
oculōque lūdōs spectat indecēns ūnō.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- illinc cucullō prōspicit caput tēctus
- a conical wrapper or case
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- cucullātus
- cuculliō / cucūliō
- cuculliunculum
Descendants
- → Albanian: kukull
- Catalan: cogoll, cucurull
- French: coule, cagoule
- Galician: cugulo
- → Greek: κουκούλα (koukoúla)
- Italian: cocollo, cogolo
- → Old English: cugele, cūle
- → Old Irish: cochall
- Portuguese: caculo, cogulo, cuculo
- Romanian: cucui
- → Hungarian: kukuj
- Sardinian: crucudhu
- Sicilian: coḍḍa
- Spanish: cogollo
- → Welsh: cwcwll
References
- “cucullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cucullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cucullus", 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)
- “cucullus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cucullus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cucullus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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