cucus

French

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Adjective

cucus

  1. 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

  1. daw, jackdaw
  2. cuckoo

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cucus cucī
Genitive cucī cucōrum
Dative cucō cucīs
Accusative cucum cucōs
Ablative cucō cucīs
Vocative cuce cucī

Descendants
  • Asturian: cucu
  • Catalan: cuc
  • Friulian: cuc
  • Galician: cuco
  • Portuguese: cuco
  • Romanian: cuc
  • Sicilian: cuccu
  • Spanish: cuco

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.
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