coq

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See also: Coq, çoq, and Coq.

English

Etymology

French

Noun

coq (plural coqs)

  1. A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
    • 1897, Ladies' home journal: Volume 15:
      […] with a flat Tam crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
    • 1921, Millinery trade review: Volume 46:
      A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
    • 2010, Deborah Davis, Party of the Century:
      It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. Coqs, the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French coq, from Old French coc, from Late Latin coccus, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz. Cognate with English cock, Dutch kok, Danish kok, Icelandic kokkur.

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

  1. male chicken, rooster, cockerel, cock
    • 1916, “Verdun, on ne passe pas!”, performed by Eugène Joullot and Jack Cazoll:
      Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne: Cocorico, debout petits soldats!
      But out of the blue, the Gallic rooster trumpets: cock-a-doodle-do, arise little soldiers!
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Esperanto: koko (through merger with English cock)

See also

Etymology 2

According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, the word would be borrowed in 1671, "at the time when Dutch navigation dominated", from Dutch kok, from Latin coquus. But the Dictionnaire du moyen français, referring to the attestations in 1354 and in 1491-1492, makes it a doublet of queux, directly from Latin coquus. See also feminine forms in Old French coquesse, coque.

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

  1. (rare) a cook
    Synonym: cuisinier

References

  1. ^ Karl Michaëlsson (1958) Le Livre de la taille de Paris, l’an 1296‎ (in French), volume 64, number 4, Almqvist & Wiksell, page 1958

Further reading

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French coc (“cock, rooster”).

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

  1. (Jersey) tap
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of coquelicot

Noun

coq m (plural coqs)

  1. (Guernsey) poppy
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