coxinus

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Latin

Alternative forms

cossīnus, cussīnus, coisīnus, coissīnus

Etymology

From coxa (“thigh”) +‎ -īnus, possibly under the influence of pulvīnus (“cushion, pillow”).

Noun

coxīnus m (genitive coxīnī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) cushion, pillow
Synonym: pulvīnus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coxīnus	coxīnī
genitive	coxīnī	coxīnōrum
dative	coxīnō	coxīnīs
accusative	coxīnum	coxīnōs
ablative	coxīnō	coxīnīs
vocative	coxīne	coxīnī

Descendants

Old Leonese:
- Asturian: coxín (“cushion”)
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: coixí
Old French: coissin, coussin, cuissin, cussin, quissin (Anglo-Norman)
- Middle French: coissin
  - French: coussin (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: couossi
- Walloon: cossén
- → Italian: cuscino
- → Middle English: quysshyn
  - English: cushion (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: cushin
- → Sicilian: cuscinu
- → Venetan: cusin
Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Galician: coxín
Old Spanish: coxín
- Spanish: cojín
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kussīn (see there for further descendants)

References

coxinus 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)

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