Noun: coco
Gender: m
f
mf
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | coco |
| Singular f | coco |
| Plural m | cocos |
| Plural f | cocos |
Sample Sentences
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Salut, coco ! (G’day mate!)
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Toi, mon coco, tu vas passer un sale quart d’heure ! (You, buddy, are going to have a miserable quarter hour!)
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Vous ne perdez rien pour attendre, mes cocos ! (You’re not losing anything by waiting, punks!)
Nouns inflected like coco
fétichiste,
modérantiste,
odontologiste,
fiduciaire,
cryptanalyste,
selfie,
neurologiste,
Sud-Est-Asiatique,
acridophage,
schizo,
motoneigiste,
bolchévique,
urbaniste,
activiste,
phalliste,
acrostiche,
électrosensible,
humaniste,
aromathérapeute,
œconomiste, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French coche, coco, from Italian cocco and Spanish coco, both from Portuguese coco. The fruit was originally referred to by the Spanish equivalent of croque-mitaine (“bogeyman”), due to the spooky face-like appearance of the three dots at the end of the shell, which developed in coco.
2. As in English, the fruit was originally referred to as coco (in the 16th century), but in the 17th (as in English) it became usual to refer to it as a nut, in the form noix de coco (“coconut”). See: Italian Nouns '
cocco', Spanish Nouns '
coco', Portuguese Nouns '
coco'.
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