costa
English
Noun
costa (plural costas or costae)
- (anatomy) A rib.
- (biology) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
- (entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
Synonyms
- (vein of insect wing): C
See also
Asturian
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Verb
costa
References
- Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). →ISBN.
Galician

Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔsta̝/
Noun
costa m (plural costas)
Derived terms
References
- “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “costa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “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.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Noun
costa f (plural coste)
Synonyms
- (anatomy): costola
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
costa
Ladin
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kost- (compare Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian [Term?] (kust) ); compare *h₃ost-, whence os (“bone”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔs.ta]
Noun
costa f (genitive costae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | costa | costae |
Genitive | costae | costārum |
Dative | costae | costīs |
Accusative | costam | costās |
Ablative | costā | costīs |
Vocative | costa | costae |
Descendants
- Aromanian: coastã
- Asturian: costa, cuesta, costiella
- Catalan: costa, costella
- Dalmatian: cuasta
- → English: costa
- Friulian: cueste
- Galician: costa, costela
- Italian: costa, costola
- Occitan: còsta, costèla
- Old French: coste
- Portuguese: costa, costela
- Romanian: coastă
- Romansh: costa
- Sardinian: colta, costa
- Spanish: cuesta, costilla, costa
- Venetian: costa
See also
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
Portuguese

Etymology
From Latin costa (“side, rib”), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean "edge" or "coast". Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa.
Verb
a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat) 1st conj.
Conjugation
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 |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkosta/, [ˈkost̪a]
Audio (Latin America) (file)