coqueluche

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English

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Etymology

French coqueluche

Noun

coqueluche (plural coqueluches)

  1. (obsolete) A type of hood historically worn by those infected with whooping cough, to keep a warm head.

French

Etymology

From earlier coqueluchon (“a kind of monk's cowl or hood”), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (“rooster”), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.klyʃ/
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Noun

coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (pathology) whooping cough
  2. (obsolete, pathology) influenza
  3. (figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")
  4. (figurative) idol, star, darling
  5. (obsolete) coqueluche hood

Derived terms

  • vol coqueluche (“treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms”)

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (Jersey) whooping cough
  2. (Jersey) whelk

Synonyms

Portuguese

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Etymology

From French coqueluche, from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus. First attested in 1840.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -uʃi
  • Hyphenation: co‧que‧lu‧che

Noun

coqueluche f (plural coqueluches)

  1. (pathology) whooping cough (a contagious disease)
    Synonyms: pertússis, tosse convulsa
  2. (figurative, colloquial) craze (a temporary passion for a new amusement or fashion)
    Synonym: febre

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Sérgio Rodrigues (2011 September 22) “A coqueluche surgiu com o sentido de ‘capuz’”, in Veja (in Portuguese), Brazil, retrieved 2023-05-18
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