coxo

• IPA^(key):

From Latin cōxus, perhaps from coxa (“hip”). Compare Portuguese coxo, Spanish cojo.

coxo (feminine coxa, masculine plural coxos, feminine plural coxas)

1. lame

   Synonym: rengo

• coxear
• coxeira

• coxa

coxo m (plural coxos, feminine coxa, feminine plural coxas)

1. lame

   Synonym: rengo

   • c. 1300, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 203:

     malato, coxo, nẽ cego, nẽ mãco, nẽ uil

     leper, lame, nor blind, nor maimed, nor vile person

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cossus (“woodworm”). Compare regional Italian cosso (“pimple”), Romanian coș (“pimple, zit”).

coxo m (plural coxos)

1. eczema, rush, caused by (or attributed to) the venom of snakes, spiders, vermin or bugs

• coxillo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coxo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coxo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coxo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From coxa (“thigh”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.soː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.so/,

coxō m (genitive coxōnis); third declension

1. A hobbling or lame person

Third-declension noun.

• “coxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coxo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin cōxus, perhaps from coxa (“hip”). Compare Galician coxo, Spanish cojo.

• Rhymes: -oʃu
• Hyphenation: co‧xo

coxo (feminine coxa, masculine plural coxos, feminine plural coxas)

1. lame (unable to walk properly)

   Synonyms: manco, perneta, capenga

2. (figuratively) incomplete

   Synonym: incompleto