coctilia
Latin
Etymology
From the adjective coctilis; the adjective forms are regularly declined; the noun is a substantivisation of the neuter plural, used elliptically for coctilia ligna (literally “dried firewood”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kokˈti.li.a/, [kɔkˈt̪ɪlʲiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kokˈti.li.a/, [kokˈt̪iːliä]
Noun
coctilia n pl (genitive coctilium); third declension
- (plural only) very dry wood, that burns without smoke
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | coctilia |
| Genitive | coctilium |
| Dative | coctilibus |
| Accusative | coctilia |
| Ablative | coctilibus |
| Vocative | coctilia |
Synonyms
- (very dry wood, that burns without smoke): ligna acapna
References
- “coctĭlĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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