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English
Etymology
Latin cucullus (“hood”)
Noun
cucullus (plural cuculli)
- (botany) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as of certain concave and arched sepals or petals.
- (zoology) A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.
Latin
Etymology
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 obscūrus (“dark, obscure”) and cutis (“hide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cucullus m (genitive cucullī); second declension
- 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.
- a conical wrapper or case
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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’s 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