cucullus

== English == === Etymology === Latin cucullus (“hood”). === Noun === cucullus (plural cuculli) (botany) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as of certain concave and arched sepals or petals. (zoology) A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood. == Latin == === Alternative forms === cuculla === Etymology === Likely a loanword, perhaps from Gaulish or Illyrian; compare Gaulish Cucullātus (“name of a Gaulish god”). Alternatively (or perhaps in tandem with the above), 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 cutis (“hide”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʊˈkʊl.lʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kuˈkul.lus] === Noun === cucullus m (genitive cucullī); second declension a covering for the head, hood, cowl a conical wrapper or case ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cucullātus cuculliō / cucūliō cuculliunculum ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, 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