costal

From French costal, from Medieval Latin costālis, from Latin costa (“rib”). As a Spanish unit, via Spanish costal. Doublet of coastal.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑstl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒstl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɒstəl

costal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a rib.
2. (biology) Pertaining to a costa.
   1. (entomology) Pertaining to the costa or to the wing areas next to it.

costal (plural costals or costales)

1. (historical) Synonym of saco, a historical Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 111 L

• tlacos, Catlos, octals

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kusˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kosˈtal]

costal m or f (masculine and feminine plural costals)

1. (anatomy, relational) rib; costal

• costa
• costat
• costella

• “costal”, 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
• “costal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “costal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “costal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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costal (feminine costale, masculine plural costaux, feminine plural costales)

1. costal

• “costal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin costalis.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtal/

costal m or f (plural costais)

1. costal

costal m (plural costais)

1. (historical) sack used for carrying loads at the back
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419:

     Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros

     Assize of the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they carry in their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

   Synonym: saco

2. flour sack

   Synonym: saco

3. packthread; cord used to tie a skein

   Synonym: conda

• costa

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “costal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “costal”, 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), “costal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “costal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

cost +‎ -al

costal

1. valuable, precious, sumptuous, costly

• neuchostal

Borrowed from French costal.

costal m or n (feminine singular costală, masculine plural costali, feminine and neuter plural costale)

1. costal

Borrowed from Latin costālis. First attested in 1843.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtal/ [kosˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cos‧tal

costal m or f (masculine and feminine plural costales)

1. (anatomy) costal (of or related to a rib)

costal m (plural costales)

1. gunny sack (a sack of cheap materials used to transport bulk dry goods)

   Synonym: talego

   Tráeme tres costales de azúcar.

   Bring me three sacks of sugar.

   • 1993, “Pacas de a kilo”, performed by Los Tigres del Norte:

     Me gusta andar por la sierra, me crié entre los matorrales / Ahí aprendí a hacer las cuentas nomás contando costales

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2. (historical) a historical unit of dry measure equivalent to about 111 L

   Synonym: saco

• → Tagalog: kostal

• “costal”, 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