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“cock” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mmāsmale; mancrēnaincision, notchretināculumholdfast, tether, halter, hawser, band (also on chariots or ships); retinaculumōsmouth; (in general) head or face; (in general) facial features, countenance, appearanceepistomiuma plug or instrument by which an aperture could be opened or closed; a cock or faucet of a water pipe.; a ventgnōmōngnomon; rod or pillar on a sundial whose shadow is used to indicate the timeexāmenswarm of bees; crowd; tongue of a balance; a consideration, an examiningattollōto lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rearērigōto raise up, elevate, lift; to lift, raise, boost; to build, erect
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cock
male bird, mas (opposed to femina).
The male of the hen, gallinae maritus: gallus gailinaceus; also gallus or gallinaceus alone. A game-cock, gallinaceus pyctes. A young cock, pullus gallinaceus. Turkey-cock gallus ludicus; meleagris gallopavo (Linn.). Cock’s comb, galli crista: wattles, palea galli. The crowing of a cock, galli cantus: cock-crowing, gallicinium (late): about cock-crowing, sub galli cantum. Cock-fight, pugna or certamen gallorum: to set cocks a fighting, gallos inter se committere. Cock-spur, calcar galli. Weather-cock, *vexillum flantis venti index (after Vitr., 1, 6, 4): or gallus aeneus flantis venti index. FIG., leader, head, dux, caput, princeps; signifer.
To be cock-a-hoop, triumphare or ovare gaudio; exsultare: laetari. (The words are found in this connection and order). laetari et triumphare.
Of an arrow, crena.
Of a gun, retinaculum (pyritae).
Of a pipe, cask, etc., os; epistomium.
Of hay, meta foeni.
Gnomon of a dial, gnomon (γνώμων).
Needle of a balance, examen.
cock v.
attollere, erigere: the hat, causiam erigere: the nose, naribus contemtum or fastidium ostendere: at anybody, aliquem suspendere naso: the ears, aures erigere, arrigere: (aurem substringere, Hor., is only poetical). To cock a gun, *retinaculum erigere or ad ictum parare. To cock hay, foeuum in metas exstruere. INTR., to strut, magnifice incidere: aliquid sibi esse videri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cock?
- The usual Latin words for “cock” are malus, mās, crēna; also retināculum, ōs, epistomium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.