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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
cucus
- masculine plural of cucu
Latin
Etymology
Found in Plautus. Compare cuculus and Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux). Possibly onomatopoeic also.
Noun
cucus m (genitive cucī); second declension
- daw, jackdaw
- cuckoo
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “cucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cucus 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)
- cucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.