Words that come from Vulgar Latin “cocus”

286 words across 63 languages descend from Vulgar Latin cocus — including cook, cooking, cooked, biscuits, biscuit, precocious, cookery, apricot.

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English (77)

French (25)

Italian (23)

German (18)

Esperanto (12)

Middle English (8)

Dutch (7)

Old French (7)

Catalan (5)

Latin (5)

Middle French (5)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Spanish (5)

Norman (5)

Swedish (4)

Portuguese (4)

Danish (3)

Ido (3)

Old English (3)

Romanian (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Byzantine Greek (3)

Arabic (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Tagalog (2)

Yiddish (2)

Russian (2)

Thai (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Classical Syriac (2)

Anglo-Norman (2)

Old High German (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Galician (1)

Turkish (1)

Fiji Hindi (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Friulian (1)

Korean (1)

Burmese (1)

Macedonian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Cebuano (1)

Slovene (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Occitan (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Limburgish (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Malay (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old Norse (1)

Guinea-Bissau Creole (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Andalusian Arabic (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old Saxon (1)