Cocosates

The Cocosates or Cocosates Sexsignani were an Aquitani tribe dwelling in present-day Landes during the Iron Age.

It can be derived from the Gaulish stem cocos- ('scarlet red') attached to the suffix -ates ('belonging to').

Red is a colour commonly used in personal names (Cocus, Cocca, Cocidius, etc.)

Their territory was located east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Oscidates and Sotiates, north of the Tarbelli and Tarusates, and south of the Boii.

[5] Their chief town was known as Caequosa (modern Sescouze, near Castets).