cossus

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French

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Adjective

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cossus

  1. masculine plural of cossu

Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain;[1] proposed derivations include:

Noun

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cossus m (genitive cossī); second declension

  1. woodworm (worm or grub found in wood)

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cossus cossī
Genitive cossī cossōrum
Dative cossō cossīs
Accusative cossum cossōs
Ablative cossō cossīs
Vocative cosse cossī

Descendants

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References

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  • cossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cossus 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)
  • cossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cossus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “cossus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 281