cucullus

English

Etymology

Latin cucullus (“hood”).

Noun

cucullus (plural cuculli)

  1. (botany) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as of certain concave and arched sepals or petals.
  2. (zoology) A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely a loanword, perhaps from Gaulish or Illyrian; compare Gaulish Cucullātus (“name of a Gaulish god”).[1]

Alternatively (or perhaps in tandem with the above), 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”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cucullus m (genitive cucullī); second declension

  1. 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)
  2. a conical wrapper or case

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cucullus cucullī
genitive cucullī cucullōrum
dative cucullō cucullīs
accusative cucullum cucullōs
ablative cucullō cucullīs
vocative cuculle cucullī

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “cucullus, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 154
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 899

Further reading

  • “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, 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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