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coxa

See also: соха

English edit

 
Diagram of an insect’s leg. The coxa is the second segment shown from the left.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”). Doublet of cuisse.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

coxa (plural coxae)

  1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

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Galician edit

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Etymology edit

From an older coyxa (14th century), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

coxa f (plural coxas)

  1. (anatomy) thigh, the upper leg
    Synonym: coxote
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:
      se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares
      if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places
  2. (of chicken) leg

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References edit

  • “coyxa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “coyxa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “coxa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “coxa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “coxa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”), whence also Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone
  2. (Late Latin) thigh

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coxa coxae
Genitive coxae coxārum
Dative coxae coxīs
Accusative coxam coxās
Ablative coxā coxīs
Vocative coxa coxae

Synonyms edit

  • (hip-joint of hipbone): ischion (Grecian)

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Descendants edit

References edit

  • “coxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “coxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: co‧xa

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese coixa, coissa, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Noun edit

coxa f (plural coxas)

  1. thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
  2. drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
  3. (arthropod anatomy) coxa (basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs)
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Noun edit

coxa m or f by sense (plural coxas)

  1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Adjective edit

coxa (invariable)

  1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

coxa

  1. feminine singular of coxo

Spanish edit

Noun edit

coxa f (plural coxas)

  1. coxa

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