cuculla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cucūlla. Doublet of cogulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈku.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈku.ʎa]

Noun

cuculla f (plural cuculles)

1. (architecture) spire

Further reading

• “cuculla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈkuːl.la/, [kʊˈkuːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈkul.la/, [kuˈkulːä]

Noun

cucūlla f (genitive cucūllae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Alternative form of cucullus

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cucūlla	cucūllae
genitive	cucūllae	cucūllārum
dative	cucūllae	cucūllīs
accusative	cucūllam	cucūllās
ablative	cucūllā	cucūllīs
vocative	cucūlla	cucūllae

Descendants

• Catalan: cogulla
• Old French: cuoule
  • French: coule, → cuculle
• Italian: cocolla
• Old Occitan: cogola
  • → Old French: cogole
    • French: cagoule
      • → English: cagoule
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cogula
  • Galician: cugula
  • Portuguese: cogula
• Sicilian: coḍḍa
• Spanish: cogulla
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: cuculla
  • → Czech: kukla
  • → Greek: κούκλα (koúkla), κουκούλα (koukoúla)
  • → Old English: cugele, cūle, cufle
    • Middle English: coule
      • English: cowl
      • Scots: coul, cool
  • → Russian: кукла (kukla)
  • → Albanian: kukull
  • → Polish: kukła
  • → Turkish: kukla

References

• “cuculla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuculla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.