coxa

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”). Doublet of cuisse.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒksə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑksə/
• Rhymes: -ɒksə

coxa (plural coxae)

1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

• coxopodite

• coxal
• coxa valga
• coxa vara

• coax

• conxa, cuxa

From an older coyxa (14th century), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoʃɐ]

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. (anatomy) thigh, the upper leg

   Synonym: coxote

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares

     if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places

2. (of chicken) leg

• perna

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

From Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”), whence also coxendīx, Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sa]

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

1. (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone

   Synonyms: coxendīx, (Grecian) ischion

2. (Late Latin) thigh

First-declension noun.

• Corsican: coscia
• Dalmatian: copsa
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: coapsã
  • Romanian: coapsă
  • → Albanian: kofshë
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: chéuscia
  • Lombard: còssa
  • Piedmontese: cheussa
• Istriot: cosa
• Italian: coscia
• Old Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: cuixa
• Neapolitan: coscia
• Old French: cuisse, quisse
  • French: cuisse
    • Haitian Creole: kwis
    • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
  • Bourguignon: cueusse
  • Champenois: cueche
  • Gallo: qhesse
  • Lorrain: cueuche
  • Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
  • Walloon: coxhe
  • → Walloon: cwisse
• Old Leonese:
  • Mirandese: coixa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: cuixa
  • Occitan: cuèissa
• Old Galician-Portuguese: coyxa (Medieval Galician)
  • Galician: coxa
  • Portuguese: coxa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: cuja
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cuesse
  • Romansch: coissa, quiessa, cuissa, cossa
• Sardinian: coscia, cossa
• Sicilian: coscia, cuoscia
  • → Maltese: koxxa
• Venetan: coxa, cosa
• → English: coxa

• “coxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -oʃɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧xa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coixa, coissa, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
2. drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
3. (arthropod anatomy) coxa (basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs)

coxa m or f by sense (plural coxas)

1. clipping of coxa-branca

coxa (invariable)

1. clipping of coxa-branca

coxa

1. feminine singular of coxo

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. coxa

• “coxa”, 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