cosa

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See also: Cosa, cósa, and cosà

Aragonese

FWOTD – 8 January 2016

Etymology

From Latin causa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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:

Pronoun

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%

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin causa.

Noun

cosa f (plural coses)

  1. thing

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cosa f (plural coses)

  1. thing
  2. affair, matter

Derived terms

Pronoun

cosa

  1. (Alghero, Italianism) what (interrogative)
    Cosa voleu? ― What do you want?

Usage notes

  • 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.

See also

References

  • “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, 2024
  • “cosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “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

Galician

Verb

cosa

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

Interlingua

Noun

cosa (plural cosas)

  1. thing

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

cosa f pl

  1. nominative/dative plural of cos

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cosa chosa gcosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Istriot

Etymology

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

Noun

cosa f

  1. thigh

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Central and Southern Italy) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.za/, (traditional) /ˈkɔ.sa/
  • (Northern Italy) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.za/
  • (Northern Italy, dialects) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.sa/
  • Hyphenation: cò‧sa

Noun

cosa f (plural cose)

  1. thing, matter

Pronoun

cosa

  1. what?
  2. what!

Derived terms

Anagrams

Old French

Noun

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

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

Usage notes

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

cosa

  1. thing

Descendants

  • Ladino: koza
  • Spanish: cosa

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

cosa

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

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cosa f (plural cosi)

  1. thing

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkosa/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: co‧sa

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cosa f (plural cosas)

  1. thing (object, concept)
  2. (informal) thing (living being or creature)
    cosas hermosas ― pretty things
Alternative forms
  • coso (dialectal, for masculine nouns)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cosa

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

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