coxendix

From Proto-Italic *koksednī-k-, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱse-dn-iH. According to Pinault, related to Tocharian A kapśañi and Tocharian B kektseñe (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *koksedon. Coxendīx may then represent a feminine derivative *kokse-dn-ih₂. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence Latin coxa (“hip”). Cognate with Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “armpit”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬱𐬀 (kaša, “armpit”), Tocharian B kakse (“midriff loins”) and Old Irish cos (“foot”).^[1]

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔkˈsɛn.diːks]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kokˈsɛn̪.d̪iks]
• Ouside very fragmented instances, the word is attested in poetry once in Plautus, requiring a long -ī- (see quotation). Some dictionaries (e.g. Lewis & Short and the Gaffiot 2016) may be wrong in reporting this word with short -i-.

coxendīx f (genitive coxendīcis); third declension

1. (anatomy) hip, hipbone

   Synonyms: coxa, (Grecian) ischion

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 1157-1159, (metre: anapaestic system):

     PHIL. Tāctus sum vehementer viscō;
     cor stimulō foditur. NIC. Pol tibi mul-
     tō aequius est coxendīcem.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.80:

     Coxendice et femore et crure sinistro non perinde ualebat, [...]

     He felt pain in his left hip, thigh and leg, [...]

Third-declension noun.

• “coxendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coxendix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.