Where does “cozen” come from?
cozen (English) comes from Italian cozzonare, from Italian cozzone, from Latin cocio, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier — whale, sea monster; abyss.
cozen (English): To become cozy; to become acquainted,...
Definitions
- To become cozy; to become acquainted,...
Ancestry of “cozen”, step by step
cozen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian cozzonare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | cozzonare | to cheat |
| 2 | Italian | cozzone | middleman, broker |
| 3 | Latin | cocio | a broker, factor |
| 4 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 5 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 6 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 7 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 8 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 9 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |