coita

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojta/ [ˈkoj.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ojta
• Hyphenation: coi‧ta

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coita, from coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”).^[1] Compare Portuguese coita and Spanish cuita.

coita f (plural coitas)

1. sorrow, grief

   Synonyms: mágoa, pena

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:

     Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado

     With great grief, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

   • 1845, Alberto Camino, O desconsolo:

     Xa non iremos mais po-los roleiros
     en compaña amorosa áas moras, non.
     Nin baixo dos follosos ameneiros
     as coitas che direi do corazon.

     We'll no longer go by the hedges
     in loving company [searching] for blackberries, no.
     Nor under the leafy alders
     the afflictions of the heart I'll tell you.

• coitado

• decoita

coita f (plural coitas)

1. (agriculture) fallow

   Synonym: barbeito

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

• cuita

From coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”).

coita f (plural coitas)

1. sorrow, grief, misfortune

• Galician: coita
• Portuguese: coita, cuita

• Universo Cantigas - "coita₁ ~ cuita"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coita, from coitar, from Vulgar Latin *cōctare, from Latin coactus (“forced”). Compare Galician coita and Spanish cuita.

• cuita

• Hyphenation: coi‧ta

coita f (plural coitas)

1. (archaic) sorrow, grief, misfortune

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coita

1. feminine singular of coito

coita

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