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See also: Appendix:Variations of "coco"

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face).[1] Doublet of coque.

Pronunciation

Noun

coco (plural cocos or cocoes)

  1. Coconut palm.
    • 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti‎[1], page 52:
      I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
    • 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. [...] The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
      They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
    • 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World‎[2], page 355:
      The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]
    • 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008‎[3], →ISBN, page 468:
      You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.

Derived terms

See also

  • cocoa (cacao, altered by confusion with coco)

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “coco”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Fijian sucu, Tagalog suso, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ū.

Pronunciation

Noun

coco

  1. (anatomy) breast

References

“Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎[4] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coco.

Pronunciation

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. coconut

Derived terms

Further reading

French

The name is ultimately from the appearance of a face in the coconut shell.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle French coche, coco, from Italian cocco and Spanish coco, both from Portuguese coco. The fruit was originally referred to by the Spanish equivalent of croque-mitaine (“bogeyman”), due to the spooky face-like appearance of the three dots at the end of the shell, which developed in coco.

As in English, the fruit was originally referred to as coco (in the 16th century), but in the 17th (as in English) it became usual to refer to it as a nut, in the form noix de coco (“coconut”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. Fruit of the coconut palm, also called noix de coco
  2. a kind of bean
  3. (slang) Motor fuel
    Synonym: carburant
  4. (dated) a type of licorice drink, by analogy with coconut milk
Hypernyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Duplication of initial co-, from communiste.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (informal) Commie

Etymology 3

Duplication of initial co-, from cocaïne.

Noun

coco f (plural cocos)

  1. (slang) cocaine

Etymology 4

Perhaps by contraction of cocorico (“cock-a-doodle-do”).

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (informal, dated, childish) egg
    Synonym: œuf

Etymology 5

Noun

coco m or f by sense (plural cocos)

  1. (informal) friendly, joking term for a friend; pal, mate, buddy
    Salut, coco !
    G’day mate!
  2. (informal, derogatory) aggressive, disdainful term of address, usually preceded by mon, ma, or mes. Roughly punk or buddy, as in “You wanna try, punk?”, or “Hey buddy, what do you think you’re doing?”
    Toi, mon coco, tu vas passer un sale quart d’heure !
    You, buddy, are going to have a miserable quarter hour!
    Vous ne perdez rien pour attendre, mes cocos !
    You’re not losing anything by waiting, punks!

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Latin coccum (“berry; gall; insect; scarlet dye”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔko/ [ˈkɔ.kʊ]
  • IPA(key): /ˈkoko/ [ˈko.kʊ]
  • Hyphenation: co‧co

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. bogeyman
  2. oak gall
  3. coconut
  4. bug; worm
    Synonyms: becho, bicho, verme

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. coco.

Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

cocō (present infinitive cocere, perfect active coxī, supine coctum); third conjugation (Late Latin)

  1. Alternative form of coquō (“cook”) (attested from the third century CE)[1]
Descendants

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

cocō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cocus

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŏquĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1167

Further reading

Manchu

Romanization

coco

  1. Romanization of ᠴᠣᠴᠣ (coco)

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare French coco.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (Jersey, informal) egg, eggy

Derived terms

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
coco

Probably from Late Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos). Doublet of coque.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. coconut (fruit of coco palm)
  2. (informal) head
  3. (informal, vulgar) testicle
  4. (Brazil, dance) popular dance from Alagoas
    • 1957, “Que coco é esse”, performed by Marinês:
      Que coco é esse / Eu já estou com vontade de dançar
      What a coconut dance this is / I'm already in the mood to dance
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
coco

Learned borrowing from New Latin coccus, from Late Latin coccum, from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos).

Pronunciation

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (bacteriology) coccus

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Japanese 石 (koku).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔku
  • Hyphenation: co‧co

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (historical) koku

References

Further reading

Spanish

coco (1)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. coconut
  2. (colloquial, Chile) testicle
  3. (colloquial, Peru) US dollars
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”), probably from Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”).

Alternative forms

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  2. (folklore) bogeyman
    Synonym: hombre del saco
    • Duérmete niño, duérmete ya… que viene el coco y te comerá.
      Sleep child, sleep now… lest the bogeyman come and eat you.
  3. (colloquial) brain; head

Etymology 3

From Latin coccum.

Noun

coco m (plural cocos)

  1. (entomology) weevil
    Synonym: gorgojo
  2. (bacteriology) coccus
    Synonym: micrococo
  3. (Dominican Republic) Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “coco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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