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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *koksednī-k-, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱse-dn-iH. According to Pinault, related to Tocharian A kapśañi and Tocharian B kektseñe (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *koksedon. Coxendīx may then represent a feminine derivative *kokse-dn-ih₂. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence Latin coxa (“hip”). Cognate with Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “armpit”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬱𐬀 (kaša, “armpit”), Tocharian B kakse (“midriff loins”) and Old Irish cos (“foot”).[1]
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key):
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key):
- Ouside very fragmented instances, the word is attested in poetry once in Plautus, requiring a long -ī- (see quotation). Some dictionaries (e.g. Lewis & Short and the Gaffiot 2016) may be wrong in reporting this word with short -i-.
Noun
coxendīx f (genitive coxendīcis); third declension
- (anatomy) hip, hipbone
- Synonyms: coxa, (Grecian) ischion
121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.80:Coxendice et femore et crure sinistro non perinde ualebat, [...]- He felt pain in his left hip, thigh and leg,
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “coxa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
Further reading
- “coxendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coxendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.