coque

From French coque (literally “shell”). Doublet of coco.

coque (plural coques)

1. A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

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coque

1. fish

• Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18

Inherited from Old French coque (“shell”), from Latin coccum (“berry”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Homophones: coq, coqs, coques

coque f (plural coques)

1. shell (of an animal's egg)
2. the casing of a phone
3. (nautical) hull
4. cockle

• → English: coque
• → Italian: coque
• → Portuguese: coque
• →? Romanian: coc

• “coque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French coque (“egg's shell”). Doublet of cocco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

coque f (invariable)

1. Only used in uovo alla coque (“soft-boiled egg”)

coque

1. vocative singular of coquus

coque

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coquō

• (Cuisnahuat) coquetzpal

Truncated form of coquetzpal. Compare Classical Nahuatl cuauhcuetzpalin (“lizard”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkuke/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɣe/

coque (plural cohcoque)

1. (Huitzapan) iguana

   Ne coque quiza motonalhuia mohmozta ihpac oni tetonti

   The iguana comes out to sun on top of that rock every day

2. (Huitzapan) black iguana

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔki, (Portugal) -ɔkɨ
• Hyphenation: co‧que

Borrowed from French coque.^[1][2] Doublet of coco.

coque m (plural coques)

1. bun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)

Borrowed from English coke.^[1][2]

coque m (plural coques)

1. coke (solid residue from roasting coal)

Onomatopoeic.

coque m (plural coques)

1. a rap on the head with the knuckles

   Synonyms: cocorote, cascudo, carolo, cocre, tafoné

Borrowed from English coke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoke/ [ˈko.ke]
• Rhymes: -oke
• Syllabification: co‧que

coque m (plural coques)

1. coke (solid fuel from coal)

• “coque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28