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

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (a rib). Doublet of coast.

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costa (plural costas or costae)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of rib.
  2. (botany, zootomy) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
    1. (entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
      Synonym: C

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AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin costa, possibly through the intermediate of another language; compare Spanish costa, Galician costa. Doublet of cuesta.

NounEdit

costa f (plural costes)

  1. shore (land adjoining a large body of water)

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

NounEdit

costa f (plural costes)

  1. coast
  2. slope
  3. rib
  4. the underside of an insect's wing
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VerbEdit

costa

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of costar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of costar

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GalicianEdit

 
A costa da costa ("a slope by the coast")

EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

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NounEdit

costa m (plural costas)

  1. side; flank
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:
      ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.
      There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out
  2. slope
  3. coast
  4. (anatomy, in the plural) back
    Dóenme as costas
    My back hurts

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ReferencesEdit

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

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.sta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsta
  • Syllabification: cò‧sta

Etymology 1Edit

 
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From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.

NounEdit

costa f (plural coste)

  1. meanings related to the literal sense:
    1. (anatomy, uncommon) rib
      Synonym: costola
    2. (anatomy, by extension, archaic) flank, side
      Synonym: fianco
    3. (by extension, archaic) side, part
      Synonyms: lato, parte
  2. (Rome) a cut of meat
  3. Synonym of costola:
    1. spine (of a book)
      Synonym: dorso
  4. the blunt edge of a blade
    1. Synonym: dorso
    2. (botany) rib, vein
      Synonym: nervatura
    3. (architecture) rib
    4. (nautical) rib
      Synonym: corba
  5. the side of a height
    1. slope (of a mountain)
  6. a road going up the side of a hill
  7. (in the plural) pastures along the slope of a mountain
  8. coast, shoreline
  9. welt (of fabric)
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Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

costa

  1. inflection of costare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit

  • costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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costa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of coster
  2. third-person plural present indicative of coster
  3. second-person singular imperative of coster

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *kost- (compare Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian [Term?] (kust) ); compare *h₃ost-, whence os (bone). However, de Vaan finds the connection with Slavic improbable and gives no etymology.[1]

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costa f (genitive costae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) a rib
  2. (transferred sense) a side, a wall
    Costae navium.
    The sides of ships.
    Costae aheni.
    The sides of a cauldron.
    Tergora diripere costis.
    To tear off the skin.

InflectionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative costa costae
Genitive costae costārum
Dative costae costīs
Accusative costam costās
Ablative costā costīs
Vocative costa costae

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • costa 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)

PortugueseEdit

 
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costa

EtymologyEdit

From Latin costa (side, rib), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean edge or coast. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast (shoreline)
    Synonyms: litoral, beira-mar

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

VerbEdit

a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat1st conj.

  1. to cost
    Synonym: prețui

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.

NounEdit

costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast, shore, coastline, shoreline
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Etymology 2Edit

From costar (to cost).

NounEdit

costa f (plural costas)

  1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs
    vivir a costa deto live on the expense of
    a toda costaat all costs
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