cucus

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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.