coccinus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόκκινος (kókkinos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔk.kɪ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔt.t͡ʃi.nus]
- (Traditional English) IPA(key): /ˈkɒk.sɪ.nəs/
Adjective
coccinus (feminine coccina, neuter coccinum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | coccinus | coccina | coccinum | coccinī | coccinae | coccina | |
| genitive | coccinī | coccinae | coccinī | coccinōrum | coccinārum | coccinōrum | |
| dative | coccinō | coccinae | coccinō | coccinīs | |||
| accusative | coccinum | coccinam | coccinum | coccinōs | coccinās | coccina | |
| ablative | coccinō | coccinā | coccinō | coccinīs | |||
| vocative | coccine | coccina | coccinum | coccinī | coccinae | coccina | |
Derived terms
Descendants
(inherited Romance descendants)
- →⇒ Translingual: Coccinia
(possible descendants through a derivative form, likely through Spanish cochinilla)
- → Azerbaijani: koşenil
- → Catalan: cotxinilla
- → Danish: cochenille
- → Dutch: cochenille
- → English: cochineal
- → Finnish: kokenilli
- → French: cochenille
- → German: Koschenille
- → Ido: kochenilo
- → Italian: cocciniglia
- → Polish: koszenila
- → Portuguese: cochinilha, cochonilha
- → Quechua: khuchinilla
- → Russian: кошениль (košenilʹ)
- → Spanish: cochinilla
- → Swedish: koschenill
- → Ukrainian: кошеніль (košenilʹ)
See also
| albus, candidus, cānus, marmoreus (poetic), eburneus (poetic), niveus (poetic), argenteus (poetic), lacteus (poetic) | rāvus, pullus, mūrīnus (of livestock) | niger, āter, furvus, fuscus ("swarthy"), piceus (poetic) |
| ruber, russus, rūbidus (dark), flammeus (poetic); rutilus, pūniceus, spādīx (poetic), sanguineus (poetic) | rūfus, rutilus, rōbus (of oxen), croceus (poetic), aureus (poetic); fulvus (poetic), niger (of eyes), badius (of horses) | lūteus, flāvus ("blond"), lūridus, gilvus (of horses), helvus (of cattle); cēreus (poetic) |
| viridis, flāvus (poetic) | viridis, herbeus (of eyes), fulvus (poetic) | viridis, glaucus (poetic), caeruleus (poetic, only dark) |
| glaucus (poetic), caeruleus, caesius (of eyes) | caeruleus, līvidus, ferrūgineus (poetic), glaucus (poetic) | |
| violāceus | purpureus (underlying shade) | roseus |
References
- “coccinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers