Cotta

== English == === Proper noun === Cotta A barangay of the city of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines. ==== See also ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Two possibilities include a variant of cocta (“cooked”), intending sunburnt or tanned, or a Latinization of ancient Italiot Greek κόττος (kóttos, “cockscomb”), intending cowlicked. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɔt.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔt.ta] === Proper noun === Cotta m sg (genitive Cottae); first declension A cognomen of the gens Aurelia ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Cotta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cotta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109. == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkot.tɑ/ === Proper noun === Cotta m a male given name === External links === Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England – Cotta