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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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Horace, Satires, 2.6.102
    • Suetonius, Nero, 30
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.32
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 24.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.70
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 1.31
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.5
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.8
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