couce

Galician

Alternative forms

• coi, couz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese couce m (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin calcem f (“heel”). Cognate with Portuguese coice m and Spanish coz f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkowθe/, (western) /ˈkowse/

Noun

couce m (plural couces)

1. a kick, especially from a quadruped

   Synonyms: beixo de burro, patada

   • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

     Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes

     Item, Xoán Cortido, citizen of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a sucking piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks

   • 1967, Juan Antonio Torrado, Fala o corvo, escoiten todos:

     Drias do rio ajudame,
     Que o Pegaso è mala vesta,
     E se me acerta dous couces
     En ma dia sò Poeta.

     Dryads of the river, help me,
     because Pegasus is a fierce beast,
     if he hits me two kicks
     at a bad time I am a poet

2. back yoke of oxen
3. lower and thicker part of a tree trunk
4. stump, part left after a cut, like a tree or a plant
5. hinge

   Synonyms: couzo, couzón

6. handle of a fishing rod

Derived terms

• Couce
• coucear
• couceira
• couceiro
• couzar
• couzoeira

Related terms

• calcar
• calcañar

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “couce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “couce”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “couce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “couce” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “couce” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin calcem f (“heel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkow.t͡se/

Noun

couce m

1. a kick, especially from a quadruped

Descendants

• Galician: couce m
• Portuguese: coice m, (dated or dialectal) couce m

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "couce"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).si/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).si]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).si/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).si]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).se/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).se]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).sɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko(w).sɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkow.sɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈko.sɨ/

Noun

couce m (plural couces)

1. Alternative form of coice