Question 1

What is the definition of the French word "coque"?

Accepted Answer

Outer shell of the egg.
Symbol of birth.
Cocoon where the silkworm and other insect chrysalides that spin enclose themselves.
Name given to various species of mollusks (in particular, in France, the common cockle, or edible cockle).
Protective envelope.
Envelope of the planks, body of the boat, abstraction made of the rigging and mast.
Small iron pieces used to guide the bolt of a lock. Clamp on the plate of a spring latch or latch.
Wooden envelope of certain fruits.
Sea fish eggs used to bait the nets with which sardines are fished.
Cocculus, a drupe whose dehiscence takes place with elasticity, because of a membranous spring located at its base.
False fold that occurs in a rope that is too strong and has not been carefully unwound.
Arrangement of ribbons or hair arranged in the shape of a bow.
Small ball made from the leaves of woad (Isatis tinctoria) from which a blue dye is extracted.
In southwestern France, a kind of traditional brioche for Epiphany.

Question 2

What is the plural of the French word "coque"?

Accepted Answer

coques

Question 3

Where does the French word "coque" come from?

Accepted Answer

rather than from the Latin concha (shell) from which conque is also derived, from the Latin coccum (cochineal, parasite forming a small globular excrescence resembling a seed). Some uses of coccum are close to the French coque: coccum cnidium ('garou fruit'), coccum also has the meaning of 'pine cone', in the eleventh century, the Latin cocca is attested in the sense of 'half-spherical cup, vase'.

Question 4

What words are synonyms of the French word "coque"?

Accepted Answer

<ul><li>cocagne</li></ul>

Question 5

How to translate "coque" into english?

Accepted Answer

shell

Question 6

How to translate "coque" into italian?

Accepted Answer

buccia

Question 7

How do you say "coque" in german?

Accepted Answer

Schale

Question 8

How to translate "coque" into spanish?

Accepted Answer

cáscara

coque

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