Cotta

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Two possibilities include a variant of cocta (“cooked”), intending sunburnt or tanned, or a Latinization of ancient Italiot Greek κόττος (“cockscomb”), intending cowlicked.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkot.ta/,

Proper noun

Cotta m sg (genitive Cottae); first declension

  1. A cognomen of the gens Aurelia
    Gaius Aurelius Cotta
     

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Cotta
Genitive Cottae
Dative Cottae
Accusative Cottam
Ablative Cottā
Vocative Cotta

References

  • “Cotta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cotta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.
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