Word Origin Summary

Coccinus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• кошенил

  HBS · derived from

• cotxinilla

  Catalan · borrowed from

• cochinilha

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• cochineal

  English · derived from

• tgietschen

  Romansch · inherited from

• cuecen

  Ladin · inherited from

• coșenilă

  Romanian · borrowed from

• cochenille

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root