Coccum, cocci. Plin. Grayne wherewith cloth is grayued. Coccum, pro Panno cocciueo. Plin. Scarlet in grayne.Ardenti cocco radiare. Sil. Coccum Cmdium.A berry like a mirtell, blacke and harde without, white within: vsed to purge choler and fleume.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
coccum, i, n., = ko)kkos (a berry, and specif.), I.The berry that grows upon the scarlet oak (Quercus coccifera, Linn.; acc. to modern botany a kind of insect, cochineal kermes), with which scarlet was colored, Plin. 16, 8, 12, 32; 9, 41, 65, 140.—Also used in medicine, Plin. 24, 4, 4, 8 al.—B.Meton.1.Scarlet color: rubro cocco tingere, Hor. S. 2, 6, 102; Mart. 5, 23, 5: cocco fulgere, id. 10, 76, 9: sanguineum, Verg. Cir. 31; Quint. 11, 1, 31.—2.Scarlet garments, cloth, etc., Sil. 17, 396; Suet. Ner. 30. —II. Coccum Gnidium, also called granum Gnidium, a grain of the shrub thymelaea cnestron, or cneoron, used in medicine, Plin. 13, 21, 35, 114; 27, 9, 46, 70; Cels. 5, 5; 5, 8; Scrib. Comp. 134.