# coctile
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin coctilis (“burned, built of burned bricks”), from coquō (“I cook, I roast or dry”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒktɪl/, /ˈkɒktaɪl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

coctile (not comparable)
* Made by baking, or exposure to heat.
** 1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language‎, Coctive, page 130/3:Coctive…Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile.
** of earthenware
*** 1705, translator unknown, A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea‎, translation of original by Willem Bosman, letter XXI, page 437:Theſe Corals…are made of a ſort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone.
*** 1851, “The Age of Honesty”, in The Dublin Review‎, volume XXXI, number lxii, article VIII, page 599:The excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn…was brought to light.
*** 1874, J.D. Beglar, A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi‎, page 189:Now, these tiles are of the coctile kind, or which have been baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles.”
*** 1995, Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture‎, page 71:An oval platform of stone…stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.
** of bread
*** 1887, “Wallace’s Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, volume XIII, page 365:Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage…acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain.
* Built of baked bricks.
** 1842, “Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IX, page 682:From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.
** 1850, David Urquhart, chapter 2, in The Pillars of Hercules‎, volume II, book iv, page 145:Beyond this region spread dead levels, which…resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides…flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish…to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens.
** 1996, Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers MMDCCLXVI: Thermosense XVIII, page 58:
    The “coctile” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.

#### Quotations

* For more quotations using this term, see Citations:coctile.

#### Related terms

* coct
* coctible
* coctillation
* coction
* coctive
* cocture
* concoct
* coque
* coquicide
* coquinate
* coquination
* decoction

#### Translations
### References

* John Boag, A Popular and Complete English Dictionary I (1848), page 250, “Coctile”
* NED II (C; 1st ed., 1893), page 580/3, “Coctile, a.”
* OED (2nd ed., 1989), “coctile, a.”

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkok.ti.le/, [ˈkɔkt̪ile]

### Adjective

coctile
* nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of coctilis

### References

* coctile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)