codo
English
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[edit]From Spanish codo (“elbow, Spanish cubit”), from Old Spanish cobdo, from Latin cubitus, from cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”). Doublet of cubit and covado. Compare codo.
Noun
[edit]codo (plural codos)
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 41.6 cm.
Synonyms
[edit]- Spanish cubit, cubit (Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- dedo (1⁄24 codo), pulgada (1⁄18 codo), coto (1⁄4 codo), sesma (1⁄3 codo), palmo (1⁄2 codo), pie (2⁄3 codo), vara (2 codos)
Chavacano
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[edit]codo
Franco-Provençal
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[edit]Noun
[edit]codo m (plural codos)
References
[edit]- coude in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- côdo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Spanish
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Etymology tree
Inherited from Old Spanish cobdo, from Latin cubitus (“elbow, cubit”), perfect passive participle of cubō (“to lie down”).[1]
Doublet of cúbito (“ulna”), a later borrowed form. Cognate with Portuguese coto and côvado, Galician cóbado, Catalan colze and colzo, French coude, Romanian cot, and English cubit. Compare coto.
Noun
[edit]codo m (plural codos)
- elbow
- 1591, Richard Percyuall, “Codo”, in Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containg a Grammar, with a Dictionaire in Spanish, English, and Latine […] (in Early Modern English), London: Iohn Iackson, page 99:
- Codo, an elbow, a cubite, Cubitus.
- Codo, an elbow, a cubit, Cubitus.
- cubit (an informal unit of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand)
- (historical) codo, Spanish cubit (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Spanish unit of length): dedo (1⁄24 codo), pulgada (1⁄18 codo), coto (1⁄4 codo), sesma (1⁄3 codo), palmo (1⁄2 codo), pie (2⁄3 codo), vara (2 codos)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From codicia or codicioso, influenced by codo (“elbow”), perhaps with an initially euphemistic intention.
Adjective
[edit]codo (feminine coda, masculine plural codos, feminine plural codas)
References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “codo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, page 2
Further reading
[edit]- “codo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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