The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόκκος“scarletberry”
- Latin · derived fromcoccum“kermes berry, scarlet”
- Welsh · borrowed fromtorgoch
- English todaytorgoch
Borrowed from Welsh torgoch (literally “red-belly”), from Latin coccum (“kermes berry, scarlet”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “scarletberry”)
Words from the same roots
Latincoccum all →
cocciferous
Ancient Greekκόκκος all →
rhodococcuscoccobacteriumcoccolitecoccolithcoccolithophorecoccosphere
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.