coccum

coccum, i, n., = kokkos (a berry, and specif.),

I.

The berry that grows upon the scarlet oak (Quercus coccifera, Linn.; acc. to modern botany a kind of insect, cochineal kermes ), with which scarlet was colored, Plin. 16, 8, 12, § 32; 9, 41, 65, § 140.—Also used in medicine, Plin. 24, 4, 4, § 8 al.—

B.

Meton.

1.

Scarlet color:

rubro cocco tingere,

Hor. S. 2, 6, 102; Mart. 5, 23, 5:

cocco fulgere,

id. 10, 76, 9:

sanguineum,

Verg. Cir. 31; Quint. 11, 1, 31.—

2.

Scarlet garments, cloth, etc., Sil. 17, 396; Suet. Ner. 30. —

II.

Coccum Gnidium, also called granum Gnidium, a grain of the shrub thymelaea cnestron, or cneoron, used in medicine, Plin. 13, 21, 35, § 114; 27, 9, 46, § 70; Cels. 5, 5; 5, 8; Scrib. Comp. 134.