coïssor

Alteration of cuiçor, from earlier *cuiçó (with a change of suffix), from Latin coctiō (“cooking”). Doublet of cocció, a learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.iˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ko.iˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ko.iˈsoɾ]

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coïssor f (plural coïssors)

1. burning sensation, stinging pain
2. (figurative) heartache

• coïssor d'estómac

• coure

• “coïssor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007