cuisse
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Etymology edit
From French cuisse (“thigh”); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.
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Noun edit
cuisse (plural cuisses)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”). Compare hanche.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cuisse f (plural cuisses)
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Further reading edit
- “cuisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).
Noun edit
cuisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuisses, nominative singular cuisse, nominative plural cuisses)