coa

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See also: COA, CoA, cóa, and co'a

English

Etymology

From Spanish coa.

Noun

coa (plural coas)

  1. A primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

coa f (plural coes)

  1. Alternative form of cua

Galician

Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + feminine definite article a (“the”).

Contraction

coa f (masculine co, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

  1. with the
    Non fales coa boca chea. ― Don't speak with your mouth full.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coa

  1. inflection of coar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form of coeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.

Pronunciation

Noun

coa f (genitive coae); first declension

  1. lustful woman, prostitute
    • 95 CE, Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.52:
      ...in triclinio coam, in cubiculo nolam....
      ...Coan in the dining-room, noan in the bedroom...

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coa coae
Genitive coae coārum
Dative coae coīs
Accusative coam coās
Ablative coā coīs
Vocative coa coae

References

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coa f

  1. tail

Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda. Cognate with French queue.

Pronunciation

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Noun

coa f (plural coas)

  1. tail

Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coa

  1. inflection of coar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Contraction

coa

  1. (archaic) Contraction of com a.

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic *kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂udeh₂.

Pronunciation

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

  1. (anatomy) tail
  2. tail (tail-end of an object)
  3. lap (upper legs of a sitting person)
    Sa mama si ponet in coa su fizu, ei su fizu si ponet coa de sa mama. ― The mother takes her son on her lap, and her son sits on his mother's lap.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoa/
  • Rhymes: -oa
  • Syllabification: co‧a

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

  1. primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
  2. (Chile, prison slang) low-class or criminal jargon

Derived terms

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