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minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 months agoIn French, coccinelle means literally nothing. But it is also called “bête à bon dieu” which can be translated to “the good god’s beast” (good god as in god is a good guy).
minus-squareparanoia@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoCoccinelle is just a derivative of the Latin name, which is from the Latin word for scarlet.
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoI assume another derivation is cochineal, aka carmine red, a dye extracted from insects.
In French, coccinelle means literally nothing. But it is also called “bête à bon dieu” which can be translated to “the good god’s beast” (good god as in god is a good guy).
Coccinelle is just a derivative of the Latin name, which is from the Latin word for scarlet.
I assume another derivation is cochineal, aka carmine red, a dye extracted from insects.