cosca

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian cosca (“rib, branch”), dialectal variant of Sicilian costa. Doublet of costola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔs.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ɔska
  • Hyphenation: cò‧sca

Noun

cosca f (plural cosche)

  1. clan (of the Mafia)
  2. coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp

Anagrams

Old Irish

Verb

·cosca

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of con·secha

Portuguese

Etymology

Alteration of cócegas. Compare Spanish coscas.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔs.kɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkɔʃ.kɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔs.ka/

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔskɐ, (Portugal) -ɔʃkɐ

Noun

cosca f (plural coscas)

  1. (informal) tickle
    Synonyms: cócegas, (informal) cosquinha

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “cosca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025

Spanish

Verb

cosca

  1. only used in se cosca, third-person singular present indicative of coscarse
  2. only used in te ... cosca, syntactic variant of cóscate, second-person singular imperative of coscarse
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