coix

coix (uncountable)

1. An East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

• oxic

From Vulgar Latin cōxus (“lame”), from Latin coxa. Compare Spanish cojo, Portuguese coxo, Aragonese coixo.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʃ/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkojʃ/

coix (feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

• “coix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.iks/, [ˈkɔ.ɪks]

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Third declension.

• Translingual: Coix

• coix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette