coxa

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒksə/
• Rhymes: -ɒksə

coxa (plural coxae)

1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

• coxal
• coxa valga
• coxa vara

• coax

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. (anatomy) thigh, the upper leg

• perna

From Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence also Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.sa/, [ˈkɔk.sa]

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

1. (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone
2. (Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin) thigh

First declension.

• (hip-joint of hipbone): ischion (Grecian)

• Corsican: coscia
• Dalmatian: copsa
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: coapsã
  • Romanian: coapsă
• Istriot: cosa
• Italian: coscia
• Ligurian: chéuscia
• Lombard: còssa
• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: cuixa
• Neapolitan: coscia
• Old French: cuisse, quisse
  • French: cuisse
    • Haitian Creole: kwis
    • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
  • Gallo: qhesse
  • Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
  • Walloon: coxhe
  • → Walloon: cwisse
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Mirandese: coixa
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: cuixa
  • Occitan: cuèissa
• Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  • Galician: coxa
  • Portuguese: coxa
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: cuja
• Piedmontese: cheussa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cuesse
  • Romansch: coissa, quiessa, cuissa, cossa
• Sardinian: coscia, cossa
• Sicilian: coscia, còscia, cùoscia
• Venetian: cosa
• → Albanian: kofshë
• → English: coxa
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *coxīnum
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: coxín
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Catalan: coixí
  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: coxín
  • Old Spanish: coxín
    • Spanish: cojín
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *coxīnus
  • Old French: coissin, cussin, quissin
    • Middle French: coissin
      • French: coussin
        • → Persian: کوسن‎ (kusan)
        • → Portuguese: coxim
    • Norman: couossi
    • → Italian: cuscino
    • → Middle Dutch: cussin
      • Dutch: kussen
        • Afrikaans: kussing
    • → Middle English: cushin
      • English: cushion
        • → Irish: cúisín
        • → Japanese: クッション (kusshon)
        • → Korean: 쿠션 (kusyeon)
        • → Maori: kuihana
      • Scots: cushin
    • → Old High German: kussīn
      • Middle High German: küssen
        • Alemannic German: Chüssi
        • German: Kissen
        • Luxembourgish: Këssen
    • → Venetian: cusin

• coxa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coxa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ʃɐ/

From Old Portuguese coixa, coissa, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”), from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-.

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
2. drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
3. (arthropod anatomy) coxa (basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs)

coxa m, f (plural coxas)

1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

coxa (invariable, comparable)

1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

coxa

1. Feminine singular of adjective coxo.