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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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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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Translations

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rib — see rib

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Asturian

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Etymology

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

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costa f (plural costes)

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

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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

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costa f (plural costes)

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

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Deverbal from costar. First attested in 1598.

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costa f (plural costes)

  1. (law, usually in the plural) cost, expense (to be paid by the losing side)
  2. cost, expense
    a costa de ― at the cost/expense of; at (someone's) expense

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Verb

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costa

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

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Galician

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

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

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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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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “costa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “costa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “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.

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Etymology 1

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

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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
    Synonym: dorso
    1. (botany) rib, vein
      Synonym: nervatura
    2. (architecture) rib
    3. (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 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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costa

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

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

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Ladin

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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

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *ko(n/r)stā- (“rib”), of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kost-, and compared with Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian [script needed] (kust), as well as *h₃ost- (“bone”), 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.

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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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Descendants of costa in other languages

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  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
  • “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)

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costa

Etymology

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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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Romanian

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Etymology

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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.

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  • IPA(key): /kosˈta/
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  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: cos‧ta

Verb

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a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat) 1st conj.

  1. to cost
    Synonym: prețui

Conjugation

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    conjugation of costa (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a costa
gerund costând
past participle costat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present cost coști costă costăm costați costă
imperfect costam costai costa costam costați costau
simple perfect costai costași costă costarăm costarăți costară
pluperfect costasem costaseși costase costaserăm costaserăți costaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să cost să coști să coste să costăm să costați să coste
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative costă costați
negative nu costa nu costați

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Etymology 1

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

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast, shore, coastline, shoreline
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Etymology 2

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Deverbal from costar (“to cost”).

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs
    vivir a costa de ― to live on the expense of
    a toda costa ― at all costs
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