cosa

From Latin causa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosa/
• Syllabification: co‧sa
• Rhymes: -osa

cosa f (plural cosas)

1. thing (that which exists as a separate entity)
   • 2010, Academia de l’Aragonés, Propuesta ortografica de l'Academia de l'Aragonés, 2nd edition, Edacar, page 67:

     Nombres propios d’animals, cosas y conceptos singularizaus:

     Proper names of animals, things and singularised concepts:

cosa

1. nothing (not any thing)
   • May-August 2014, Fuellas, Consello d’a Fabla Aragonesa, page 26:

     Respondioron: muito 0,00 % / prou 33,3 % / poco 66,7 % / cosa 0,00 %

     They answered: a lot 0.00% / enough 33.3% / a little 66.7% / nothing 0.00%

• cousa (Western Asturian)

From Old Leonese cosa.

cosa f (plural coses)

1. thing

Inherited from Latin causa. Compare Occitan causa and chausa, French chose, Spanish cosa, Italian cosa. Doublet of causa, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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cosa f (plural coses)

1. thing
2. affair, matter

• alguna cosa
• coseta
• qualsevol cosa

cosa

1. (Alghero, Italianism) what (interrogative)

   Cosa voleu? ― What do you want?

• The Italianism cosa? ('what?') is found within Algherese and is commonly used by speakers thereof, but is deemed by the IEC as something to be avoided.

• qui cosa
• per cosa
• percosa

• “cosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “cosa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “cosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 33

cosa

1. inflection of coser:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

cosa (plural cosas)

1. thing

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosˠə/

cosa f pl

1. nominative/dative plural of cos

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

cosa f

1. thigh

Inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of the borrowing causa. The pronoun is a clipping of che cosa.

• (Central and Southern Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.za/, (traditional) /ˈkɔ.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔza, (traditional) -ɔsa
• (northern Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.za/

  • Audio (Northern):

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  • Rhymes: -ɔza
• (northern Italy, dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: cò‧sa

cosa f (plural cose)

1. thing, matter

cosa

1. what?

   Cosa c'è? ― What's the matter?

2. what!

• caos, caso, osca

cosa oblique singular, f (oblique plural cosas, nominative singular cosa, nominative plural cosas)

1. (very early Old French) alternative form of chose

• Used in the Oaths of Strasbourg

• cousa (Bierzo, Cepeda; Western León)

From Latin causa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosa/

cosa m (plural cosas)

1. thing
   • 1017, Fuero de León:

     Mandamos que nengunno non sea ossado de tomar neguna cosa per roba dela yglesia;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1243, Venta de una heredad en Villar (Cepeda)‎:

     de la gram cousa ata la pechena

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1247, Fuero de Campumanes‎:

     Conuszuda cosa sea a todos los omes

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1256, "El abad del Montasterio de Espinareda concede fueros a los pobladores de Outero de Langre."‎:

     Conoçuda cousa sea a quantos esta carta viren e audiren

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Asturian: cosa, cousa
• Leonese: cousa
• Mirandese: cousa

From Latin causa. Cognates include Middle English cause, Old French chose, Old Galician-Portuguese cousa, Italian cosa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoza/

cosa

1. thing

• Ladino: koza
• Spanish: cosa

• Homophones: coza, cousa
• Rhymes: -ozɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧sa

cosa

1. inflection of coser:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Russian коса (kosa).

cosa f (plural cosale)

1. spit, sandbank

• cosa in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa. Doublet of causa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Hyphenation: cò‧sa

cosa f (plural cosi)

1. thing

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cosa”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 994–997

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosa/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: co‧sa

Inherited from Old Spanish cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of the borrowing causa. Cognates include French chose, Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa.

cosa f (plural cosas)

1. thing (object, concept)
2. (informal) thing (living being or creature)

   cosas hermosas ― pretty things

• coso (dialectal, for masculine nouns)

• cosilla (diminutive)
• cosita (diminutive)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cosa

1. inflection of coser:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “cosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024