Cossus

Borrowed from Latin cossus (“woodworm”).

Cossus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cossidae – typical cossid moths.

• Most species originally placed in Cossus are now placed in other genera, including those shown below as derived terms, but also other genera. About 20 species remain.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order ; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Cossoidea – superfamily; Cossidae – family; Cossulinae – subfamily

• (genus): Cossus cossus (goat moth) – type species

• Cossus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cossus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cossus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From cossus (“woodworm”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔs.sus]

Cossus m sg (genitive Cossī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Aulus Cornelius Cossus, a Roman consul

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Translingual: Cossus

• “Cossus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.