French

Adjective

cossus

1. masculine plural of cossu

Latin

Noun

cossus m

1. woodworm (worm or grub found in wood)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Galician: coxo, coxillo
• Italian: cosso
• Romanian: coș
• Spanish: coso, gusano

References

• cossus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• COSSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cossus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cossus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cossus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray