Noun: coq
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | coq |
| Plural m | coqs |
Sample Sentences
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Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne: Cocorico, debout petits soldats! (But out of the blue, the Gallic rooster trumpets: cock-a-doodle-do, arise little soldiers!) [1916, “Verdun, on ne passe pas!”, performed by Eugène Joullot and Jack Cazoll:]
Nouns inflected like coq
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French coq, from Old French coc, from Late Latin coccus, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz. Cognate with English cock, Dutch kok, Danish kok, Icelandic kokkur. See: English Nouns '
cock', Dutch Nouns '
kok', Danish Nouns '
kok', Icelandic Nouns '
kokkur'.
Verbs referencing "coq"
Old English Nouns
cocc.
Translations