custa

From Old Galician-Portuguese custa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), back-formation from custar.

• IPA^(key):

custa f (plural custas)

1. (usually in the plural) cost; expense
2. (law, in the plural) costs, legal expenses

• a custa de

• custar

custa

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “custa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “custa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “custa”, 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), “custa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

custa

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

• costa

Inherited from Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō. Compare the doublet costa (“to cost”), borrowed through Italian, and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

a custa (third-person singular present custă, past participle custat) 1st conj.

1. (archaic, regional) to live, exist, continue, endure

   Synonyms: trăi, exista, viețui, dura