In Lokev, a village in Slovenia just a few kilometers from Italy, the place name Ožeg ("Burned," from the Slovene vžgati, meaning to kindle) took hold, following a fire that developed on the northern slope and spread to the outskirts of the town.

[7] According to him, Cocusso is a modern toponym, the Italian form of Kokus, which in Slavic languages has no meaning but is simply the Slovene euphony of the pre-existing Concusso, deprived of a letter since in Slovene grammar the n cannot precede the c. The first toponym was therefore Concusso (with n), already found in maps of the 17th century and in this form still in use in the first decades of the 20th century.

[1] Since then, all official documents and publications mention the mountain as Cocusso, thus accepting the Slovene version that removed the n from the original name Concusso, the etymon of which is traced back to the common root cuc, or kuk (peak),[10] found in ancient pre-Roman idioms.

(45°38′25″N 13°54′50″E / 45.6403°N 13.914°E / 45.6403; 13.914), a pass that is considered the physical boundary between Cocusso, its satellite elevations, and the Greater Castellaro (Veliko Gradišče, 742 m a.s.l., 45°38′24″N 13°55′43″E / 45.6401°N 13.9286°E / 45.6401; 13.9286).

Prominent in terms of distribution is the roe deer, which, with about thirty heads per hundred hectares, reaches one of the highest densities in Italy.

Common are magpies, jays, buzzards, hoopoes, green and great spotted woodpeckers as well as numerous species of corvids.