cocococo

Latin

Alternative forms

coco, coco
coco coco

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈko.ko.ko/, [kɔˈkɔkɔkɔ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈko.ko.ko/, [koˈkɔːkoko]

Interjection

cocococo

cock-a-doodle-doo!
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 59:
  Et tu cum esses capo, cocococo, atque cor non habebas.
  And when you were a cockerel, you said cock-a-doodle-doo and didn't have a heart.

References

“cocococo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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