cucullus

English

Etymology

Latin cucullus (“hood”)

Noun

cucullus (plural cuculli)

1. (botany) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as of certain concave and arched sepals or petals.
2. (zoology) A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.

Latin

Alternative forms

• cuculla

Etymology

A reduplicative form of Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Latin cūlus, Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”) and indirectly Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to obscūrus (“dark, obscure”) and cutis (“hide”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈkuːl.lus/, [kʊˈkuːlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈkul.lus/, [kuˈkulːus]

Noun

cucullus m (genitive cucullī); second declension

1. a covering for the head, hood, cowl
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 5.14.6-7:

     illinc cucullō prōspicit caput tēctus
     oculōque lūdōs spectat indecēns ūnō.

2. a conical wrapper or case

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cucullus	cucullī
genitive	cucullī	cucullōrum
dative	cucullō	cucullīs
accusative	cucullum	cucullōs
ablative	cucullō	cucullīs
vocative	cuculle	cucullī

Derived terms

• cucullātus
• cuculliō / cucūliō
• cuculliunculum

Descendants

• → Albanian: kukull
• Catalan: cogoll, cucurull
• French: coule, cagoule
• Galician: cugulo
• → Greek: κουκούλα (koukoúla)
• Italian: cogolo
• → Old English: cugele, cūle
  • Middle English: coule
    • English: cowl
• → Old Irish: cochall
  • Irish: cochall
  • Manx: coghal
  • Scottish Gaelic: cochall
• Portuguese: caculo, cogulo, cuculo
• Romanian: cucui
• Sardinian: crucudhu
• Sicilian: coḍḍa
• Spanish: cogollo
• → Welsh: cwcwll

References

• “cucullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cucullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cucullus 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)
• cucullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cucullus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cucullus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin