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coxendix

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From a Proto-Italic *koksednī-k-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence Latin coxa (“hip”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA(key): /kokˈsen.diːks/, [kɔkˈs̠ɛn̪d̪iːks̠]

  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kokˈsen.diks/, [kokˈsɛn̪d̪iks]
  • Ouside very fragmented instances, the word is attested in poetry once in Plautus, requiring a long -ī- (see quotation). Some dictionaries (e.g. Lewis & Short and the Gaffiot 2016) may be wrong in reporting this word with short -i-.

Noun edit

coxendīx f (genitive coxendīcis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) hip, hipbone
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 1157-1159, (metre: anapaestic system):
      PHIL. Tāctus sum vehementer viscō;
      cor stimulō foditur. NIC. Pol tibi mul-
      tō aequius est coxendīcem.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coxendīx coxendīcēs
Genitive coxendīcis coxendīcum
Dative coxendīcī coxendīcibus
Accusative coxendīcem coxendīcēs
Ablative coxendīce coxendīcibus
Vocative coxendīx coxendīcēs

References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “coxa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
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