cocus

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The c-spelling is often limited to endings in u as equivalent to quu, while other forms are spelled with qu. Other scribes retained the c throughout.

Second-declension noun.

• “cocus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cocus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cocus 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)
• cocus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

cocus m (genitive cocī); second declension (New Latin)

1. coconut
   • 1619, Americæ pars undecima: Seu descriptio admirandi itineris a Guilielmo Schouten Hollando peracti: , Oppenheim: Typis Hieronymi Galleri, page 41:

     Illi amicabiliter ad navem noſtram appellentes, tantum Cocorum ac Bananarum nobis obtulerunt numerum, ut quilibet in navi nuces 50. duos Bananarum corbes eo die lucraretur.

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   • 1622, Antonio de Herrera [y Tordesillas], translated by C[aspar] Barlæus, Novus Orbis, Sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis, , Amsterdam: Apud Michaelem Colinium Bibliopolam, ad insigne Libri Domestici, page 71:

     Tabaci, Cocorum, Bananarum, oryzæ, piſorum, fabarum, porcorum, gallinarum & piſcium nobis faciebant copiam.

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   • 1832, Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe : Exécuté pár ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d’Urville, , volume IV, Paris: J. Tastu, , page 686:

     Hi Æthiopes monstrabant ut tormenta nostra exploderemus in canoas istas, sed significabatur ipsis, hoc à natura batava alienum, nocere inculpatis, si vero nos læderent, arma nobis data defensioni, nihilominus advolant amicè, adferentes tantam abundantiam cocorum et bananarum, quantam desiderabamus, ut socio unicuique quinquaginta nuces distribuerentur et duo fasciculi bananarum.

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Second-declension noun.

• Thomas McCarthy (2009) “Appendix III: Words and Phrases”, in Nunc Loquāmur: Guided Conversations for Latin, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Focus, Hackett Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 90, columns 1–2: “coconut nux Indica magna; nux cocoīna; cocus”.