coita

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojta/
• Rhymes: -ojta
• Hyphenation: coi‧ta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coita, from coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”).^[1] Compare Portuguese coita and Spanish cuita.

coita f (plural coitas)

1. sorrow, grief

   Synonyms: mágoa, pena

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:

     Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado

     With great grief, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

   • 1845, Alberto Camino, O desconsolo:

     Xa non iremos mais po-los roleiros
     en compaña amorosa áas moras, non.
     Nin baixo dos follosos ameneiros
     as coitas che direi do corazon.

     We'll no longer go by the hedges
     in loving company for blackberries, no.
     Nor under the leafy alders
     the afflictions of the heart I'll tell you.

• coitado

• decoita

coita f (plural coitas)

1. (agriculture) fallow

   Synonym: barbeito

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coyta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coyta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coita”, 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), “coita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• cuita

From coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”).

coita f (plural coitas)

1. sorrow, grief, misfortune

• Galician: coita
• Portuguese: coita, cuita

• Universo Cantigas - "coita₁ ~ cuita"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coita, from coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”). Compare Galician coita and Spanish cuita.

• cuita

• Hyphenation: coi‧ta

coita f (plural coitas)

1. (archaic) sorrow, grief, misfortune

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coita

1. feminine singular of coito

coita

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