Ancient Greek

Noun

κόκκος • ‎(kókkos) m ‎(genitive κόκκου); second declension

1. grain, seed, kernel
2. The kermes oak
3. insects of the genus Kermes, which live on the oak.
4. A scarlet dye made from the crushed bodies of the kermes bugs
5. scarletberry, Solanum dulcamara
6. the colour scarlet
7. testicle

Declension

Derived terms

• κοκκοθραύστης ‎(kokkothraústēs)

Descendants

• Greek: κόκκος ‎(kókkos)
• Latin: coccum

References

• κόκκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόκκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κόκκος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2848”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κόκκος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• LSJ

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόκκος ‎(kókkos).

Noun

κόκκος • ‎(kókkos) m ‎(plural κόκκοι)

1. speck, grain, particle

Declension

Related terms

• στρεπτόκοκκος m ‎(streptókokkos, “streptococcus”)