cojín

Probably borrowed from Old Catalan coxin~coixin (modern coixí), from Vulgar Latin *coxīnum (“cushion”), from Latin coxa (“hip”). Compare French coussin, Italian cuscino.

• IPA^(key): /koˈxin/ [koˈxĩn]
• IPA^(key): /koˈʃin/ [koˈʃĩn] (Early Modern Spanish)
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: co‧jín

cojín m (plural cojines)

1. cushion

   Synonym: almohadón

• → Tagalog: kusin

• “cojín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cojín”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 129
• “coixí” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.