couso

• IPA^(key): /ˈkowso/ [ˈkow.s̺ʊ]

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• Rhymes: -owso
• Hyphenation: cou‧so

From cousa (“thing”), from Latin causa.

couso m (plural cousos)

1. thingy; thing (used as a wildcard for naming something which name we don't remember or ignore)

   Synonyms: chintófano, chisme, conto

   E logo o couso ese ten Internet?

   And so this thingy has Internet?

Attested as causo in local Medieval Latin documents at least since the 9th century. Probably from Latin capsus.^[1]

couso m (plural cousos)

1. large open box like container used for storing grain
2. a trap for wolves consisting of two long converging walls and a central walled pit where wolves were driven for being killed, usually on an annual basis

   Synonyms: foxo, lobeira

3. (nautical, dated) port

   Synonym: babor

   Antonyms: arca, estribor

• Couselo
• Couso
• Cousos

couso

1. first-person singular present indicative of cousir

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

From co- +‎ uso.

couso m (plural cousi)

1. joint use

coūsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of coūsus