cossus

== French == === Adjective === cossus masculine plural of cossu == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain; proposed derivations include: From a root common to Ancient Greek σκίδνημι (skídnēmi, “to disperse”) and Lithuanian kedeti (“to burst”). From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognates include cortex (“bark”) and Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”). From Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”), with the possible cognate careō (“to lack”). === Noun === cossus m (genitive cossī); second declension woodworm (worm or grub found in wood) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: koshëz Asturian: cosu (in part), coxíu, guxán (uncertain) Friulian: cos Galician: coxo, coxillo Italian: cosso Romanian: coș Spanish: coso, cojijo, gusano (uncertain) Translingual: Cossus === References === “cossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "cossus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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