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See also: Costa, cósta, costá, costà, costâ, and cô ta

English

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.

Pronunciation

Noun

costa (plural costas or costae)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of rib.
  2. (botany, zootomy) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
    1. (entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
      Synonym: C

Derived terms

Translations

rib — see rib

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References

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin costa, possibly through the intermediate of another language; compare Spanish costa, Galician costa. Doublet of cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

  1. shore (land adjoining a large body of water)

Synonyms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

  1. coast
  2. slope
  3. rib
  4. the underside of an insect's wing
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Deverbal from costar. First attested in 1598.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

  1. (law, usually in the plural) cost, expense (to be paid by the losing side)
  2. cost, expense
    a costa de ― at the cost/expense of; at (someone's) expense

Etymology 3

Verb

costa

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

Further reading

Galician

A costa da costa ("a slope by the coast")

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Pronunciation

Noun

costa m (plural costas)

  1. side; flank
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:
      ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.
      There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out
  2. slope
  3. coast
  4. (anatomy, in the plural) back
    Dóenme as costas
    My back hurts

Derived terms

References

  • “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “costa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “costa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “costa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural coste)

  1. meanings related to the literal sense:
    1. (anatomy, uncommon) rib
      Synonym: costola
    2. (anatomy, by extension, archaic) flank, side
      Synonym: fianco
    3. (by extension, archaic) side, part
      Synonyms: lato, parte
  2. (Rome) a cut of meat
  3. Synonym of costola:
    1. spine (of a book)
      Synonym: dorso
  4. the blunt edge of a blade
    Synonym: dorso
    1. (botany) rib, vein
      Synonym: nervatura
    2. (architecture) rib
    3. (nautical) rib
      Synonym: corba
  5. the side of a height
    1. slope (of a mountain)
  6. a road going up the side of a hill
  7. (in the plural) pastures along the slope of a mountain
  8. coast, shoreline
  9. welt (of fabric)
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

costa

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

Further reading

  • costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

costa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of coster
  2. third-person plural present indicative of coster
  3. second-person singular imperative of coster

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ko(n/r)stā- (“rib”), of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kost-, and compared with Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian (kust), as well as *h₃ost- (“bone”), whence os (“bone”). However, de Vaan finds the connection with Slavic improbable and gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

costa f (genitive costae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) a rib
  2. (transferred sense) a side, a wall
    Costae navium.
    The sides of ships.
    Costae aheni.
    The sides of a cauldron.
    Tergora diripere costis.
    To tear off the skin.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative costa costae
Genitive costae costārum
Dative costae costīs
Accusative costam costās
Ablative costā costīs
Vocative costa costae

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants of costa in other languages

See also

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
  • “costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • costa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

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costa

Etymology

From Latin costa (“side, rib”), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean “edge” or “coast”. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast (shoreline)
    Synonyms: litoral, beira-mar

Derived terms

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Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kosˈta/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: cos‧ta

Verb

a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat) 1st conj.

  1. to cost
    Synonym: prețui

Conjugation

    conjugation of costa (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a costa
gerund costând
past participle costat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present cost coști costă costăm costați costă
imperfect costam costai costa costam costați costau
simple perfect costai costași costă costarăm costarăți costară
pluperfect costasem costaseși costase costaserăm costaserăți costaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să cost să coști să coste să costăm să costați să coste
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative costă costați
negative nu costa nu costați

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkosta/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -osta
  • Syllabification: cos‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast, shore, coastline, shoreline
Derived terms
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See also

Etymology 2

Deverbal from costar (“to cost”).

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs
    vivir a costa de ― to live on the expense of
    a toda costa ― at all costs
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