cuisse

From French cuisse (“thigh”); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.

• IPA^(key): /kwɪs/, /kwiːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs, -iːs

cuisse (plural cuisses)

1. Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.

   Synonyms: cuisset, cuissette, cuisser, cush

   Coordinate terms: cuissard, chausse, chausson

• cuish, quish, quisse

• quisser, quisset

Inherited from Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”). Compare hanche.

• IPA^(key): /kɥis/

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• Homophone: cuisses

cuisse f (plural cuisses)

1. (anatomy) thigh
2. (dialectal) segment, quarter of some fruits (like oranges)

• Haitian Creole: kwis
• → English: cuish, cuisse, quish

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

• cuises

• quisse

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

cuisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuisses, nominative singular cuisse, nominative plural cuisses)

1. thigh

• 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