coix

From New Latin coix, from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).^[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.ɪks/, (rare) /ˈkɔɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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coix (uncountable)

1. An East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

• oxic

Inherited from Latin cōxus, perhaps derived from coxa (“hip”). Compare Aragonese coixo.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkoʃ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkojʃ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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coix (feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “coix”, 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
• “coix”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈko.ɪks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.iks]

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Third-declension noun.

• Translingual: Coix

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