Costa

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See also: costa, cósta, costá, costà, costâ, and cô ta

Galician

Etymology

From costa (“slope”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Costa f

  1. Name of a large number of hamlets and villages all along Galicia.
  2. a toponymical surname

References

  • “Costa” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “Costa” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Costa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

Etymology

From costa (“coast”), from Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa (“rib, side”).

Pronunciation

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  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkɔs.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: Cos‧ta

Proper noun

Costa m or f

  1. a toponymic surname
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