costura

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kosˈtu.ɾa]

costura f (plural costures)

1. sewing, needlework
2. stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing)

• cosir

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

• custura

From Old Galician-Portuguese costura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa̝/

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. stitches, stitching
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     a pẽna do mãto mays preçada et mays marauillosa era que outra que nũca home uisse, ca ela era en ssy enteyra, que en ela toda nõ auj́a peça nẽ costura.

     the mantle's hide was more precious and marvelous than any other that anyone had ever seen, because it was in itself whole, having no pieces or stiches

3. junction, joint in between boards
4. scar
5. (nautical, fishing) splice

• costureira
• costureiro

• coser

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

From Latin *consutura

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: co‧stù‧ra

costura f (plural costure)

1. a seam (the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric)

• costura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

costura f (plural costuras)

1. sewing
2. stitches

• costurar
• costureira

• coser

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

costura

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

• “costura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsutūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from cōnsuō.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa/ [kosˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cos‧tu‧ra

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. (in clothing or machinery) seam, stitches
3. (nautical) seam
4. splice

• “costura”, 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