coccum
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
coccum: i, n., = κὀκκος (a berry, and specif.),
I The berry that grows upon the scarlet oak (Quercus coccifera, Linn.; acc. to modern botany a kind of insect, cochineal kermes), with which scarlet was colored, Plin. 16, 8, 12, § 32; 9, 41, 65, § 140.—Also used in medicine, Plin. 24, 4, 4, § 8 al.—
B Meton.
1 Scarlet color: rubro cocco tingere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 102; Mart. 5, 23, 5: cocco fulgere, id. 10, 76, 9: sanguineum, Verg. Cir. 31; Quint. 11, 1, 31.—
2 Scarlet garments, cloth, etc., Sil. 17, 396; Suet. Ner. 30. —
II Coccum Gnidium, also called granum Gnidium, a grain of the shrub thymelaea cnestron, or cneoron, used in medicine, Plin. 13, 21, 35, § 114; 27, 9, 46, § 70; Cels. 5, 5; 5, 8; Scrib. Comp. 134.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
coccum,¹⁵ ī, n. (κόκκος), kermès, [espèce de cochenille qui donne une teinture écarlate] : Plin. 16, 32 || écarlate [couleur] : Hor. S. 2, 6, 102 || étoffe teinte en écarlate : Suet. Nero 30, 3 || manteau d’écarlate : Sil. 17, 395.
