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Costa

See also: costa, cósta, costá, costà, costâ, and cô ta

English

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Etymology

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From Romance (from Portuguese Costa, Galician Costa, Spanish Costa, Catalan Costa, Occitan Costa, French Costa, Italian Costa), from Latin costa.

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Costa (plural Costas)

  1. A surname from the Romance languages.
    1. A surname from Italian.
    2. A surname from Galician.
    3. A surname from French.
      1. A surname from Occitan.
    4. A surname from Spanish.
      1. A Catalonian surname from Catalan.
    5. A surname from Portuguese.

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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Costa is the 904th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38265 individuals. Costa is most common among White (83.16%) and Hispanic/Latino (10.25%) individuals.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Occitan Costa, from Latin costa.

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Costa m or f by sense

  1. a Languedoc surname, Costa, from Occitan, equivalent to the French Côté

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  • → English: Costa

Galician

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Etymology

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From costa (“slope”).

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Costa f

  1. name of a large number of hamlets and villages all along Galicia
  2. a toponymical surname, Costa
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References

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  • “Costa” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “Costa” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Costa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin costa.

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Costa m or f by sense

  1. a toponymic surname

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Occitan

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From Latin costa.

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Costa

  1. a toponymic surname, Costa

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From costa (“coast”), from Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa (“rib, side”).

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Costa m or f by sense

  1. a toponymic surname, Costa

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Romance (from Galician Costa, Occitan Costa, Catalan Costa), from Latin costa.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -osta
  • Syllabification: Cos‧ta

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Costa m or f by sense

  1. a non-Castilian surname, Costa, from the Romance languages, equivalent to the Spanish Cuesta
    1. a surname from Occitan
    2. a Catalonian surname from Catalan
    3. a surname from Galician

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