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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.