coa
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
coa (plural coas)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coa f (plural coes)
- Alternative form of cua
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + feminine definite article a (“the”).
Contraction edit
coa f (masculine co, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
coa
- inflection of coar:
Latin edit
Etymology edit
After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form of coeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coa f (genitive coae); first declension
- lustful woman, prostitute
- 95 CE, Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.52:
- ...in triclinio coam, in cubiculo nolam....
- ...Coan in the dining-room, noan in the bedroom...
- ...in triclinio coam, in cubiculo nolam....
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | coa | coae |
Genitive | coae | coārum |
Dative | coae | coīs |
Accusative | coam | coās |
Ablative | coā | coīs |
Vocative | coa | coae |
References edit
- coa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.
Noun edit
coa f
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda. Cognate with French queue.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
coa f (plural coas)
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
coa
- inflection of coar:
Etymology 2 edit
Contraction edit
coa
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
- coda (Nuorese)
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic *kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂udeh₂.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coa f (plural coas)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coa f (plural coas)
- primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
- (Chile, prison slang) low-class or criminal jargon
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “coa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014