costa
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒ.stə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.stə/
- Rhymes: -ɒstə
Noun
[edit]costa (plural costas or costae)
- (anatomy) Synonym of rib.
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]- bone
- guarda costa (etymologically unrelated)
References
[edit]- “costa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “costa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin costa, possibly through the intermediate of another language; compare Spanish costa, Galician costa. Doublet of cuesta.
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costes)
- shore (land adjoining a large body of water)
Synonyms
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costes)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Deverbal from costar. First attested in 1598.
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costes)
- (law, usually in the plural) cost, expense (to be paid by the losing side)
- cost, expense
- a costa de ― at the cost/expense of; at (someone's) expense
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]costa
- inflection of costar:
Further reading
[edit]- “costa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “costa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “costa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “costa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]costa m (plural costas)
- 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
- slope
- coast
- (anatomy, in the plural) back
- Dóenme as costas
- My back hurts
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “costa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “costa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “costa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “costa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural coste)
- meanings related to the literal sense:
- (Rome) a cut of meat
- Synonym of costola:
- the blunt edge of a blade
- Synonym: dorso
- the side of a height
- slope (of a mountain)
- a road going up the side of a hill
- (in the plural) pastures along the slope of a mountain
- coast, shoreline
- welt (of fabric)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]costa
- inflection of costare:
Further reading
[edit]- costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Ladin
[edit]Verb
[edit]costa
- third-person singular present indicative of coster
- third-person plural present indicative of coster
- second-person singular imperative of coster
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔs̠t̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔst̪ä]
Noun
[edit]costa f (genitive costae); first declension
- (anatomy) a rib
- (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.
Inflection
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | costa | costae |
Genitive | costae | costārum |
Dative | costae | costīs |
Accusative | costam | costās |
Ablative | costā | costīs |
Vocative | costa | costae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aromanian: coastã
- → Asturian: costa, cuesta
- → Catalan: costa
- Dalmatian: cuasta
- → English: costa
- Friulian: cueste
- → Galician: costa
- → Italian: costa
- → Occitan: còsta
- → Old French: coste
- → Portuguese: costa
- Romanian: coastă
- → Romansch: costa
- Sardinian: colta, → costa
- Sicilian: costa
- Spanish: cuesta, → costa
- → Venetian: costa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin costa (“side, rib”), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean “edge” or “coast”. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costas)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- коста (costa) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat) 1st conj.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | a costa | ||||||
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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 |
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costas)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Deverbal from costar (“to cost”).
Noun
[edit]costa f (plural costas)
- (in certain expressions) expense, costs
- vivir a costa de ― to live on the expense of
- a toda costa ― at all costs
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “costa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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