Cosa

Cosa f (plural Cose, masculine Coso)

1. what's-her-name

• caos, caso, osca

From Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌔𐌉 (cusi) or 𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌀 (cosia).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.s̬a]

Cosa f sg (genitive Cosae); first declension

1. an Etruscan city of Etruria, situated on the seacoast

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Cosānum
• Cosānus

• Cosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Cosa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Cosa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Cosa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press