Etymograph

English

coctile

Coctile comes from Latin coctilis ‘burned, built of burned bricks’, from coquō ‘to cook, to roast or dry’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pekʷ-1‘to cook, become ripe’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pékʷeti1‘to be cooking’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷekʷō1‘to cook’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoquō2‘to cook, to roast or dry’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoctilis2‘burned, built of burned bricks’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1705coctile2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin coquo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English coctile
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea: “Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pekʷ-Wiktionary, Latin coquo‘to cook, become ripe’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pékʷetiWiktionary, Latin coquo‘to be cooking’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷekʷōWiktionary, Latin coquo‘to cook’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoquōWiktionary, English coctile‘to cook, to roast or dry’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoctilisWiktionary, English coctile‘burned, built of burned bricks’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1705coctileWiktionary, English coctile. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea: “Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ‘to cook, become ripe’

pumpkin, quitter, ricotta, dyspepsia, peptic, 13 more

through Latin coquō ‘to cook, to roast or dry’

coach, kitchen, cook, cuisine, culinary, kiln, concoction, concoct, decoction, 5 more

Today it means

adj Made by baking, or exposure to heat.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “coctile”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin coquo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- / coctile

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