coccus

coccus, ~um [CL < κόκκος] , shrub (kermes) bearing cochineal insects (mistaken for berries). b whelk (or red dye derived from it). c red dye, (?) cochineal. ~us infectivus frutex est sarmentosa habens in ipsis virgis baculas rotundas sicut lenticula Alph. 45.  b ~um, wioloc GlC C 865; ~um bistinctum, wiolocread Ib. 520; ~um, rubicundum, bis tinctum, weolcread Ælf. Gl..  c sic cocci murice rubro / purpureus stillat sanguis de palmite guttis Aldh. Aen. 98. 2; in Sunam, quae interpretatur ‘coccinea’, castra metati esse dicuntur. ~us quippe ignis speciem tenet Bede Sam. 699; ~us, read deah Ælf. Gl.; ~us ignei coloris est Ailr. Serm. 18. 313B; sublevabat jacentis cervicem cervical amplissimum, quod ex purpura et bisso ~oque bis tincto et jacintho ‥ fuerat contextum Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 18 p. 215; sylke, bissus album, ~um rubeum: ‥ ‘purpura sanguineus, velut igneus est tibi †coctus [l. coccus]’ CathA.