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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : according to Morlet, from a derivative of Latin cos, genitive cotis, denoting the pouch where a reaper kept a whetstone for sharpening his sickle, hence a metonymic occupational name for a reaper or mower.

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