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costa

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

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.

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Noun

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costa (plural costas or costae)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of rib.
  2. (botany, zootomy) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
    1. (entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
      Synonym: C

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin costa, possibly through the intermediate of another language; compare Spanish costa, Galician costa. Doublet of cuesta.

Noun

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costa f (plural costes)

  1. shore (land adjoining a large body of water)

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Noun

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costa f (plural costes)

  1. coast
  2. slope
  3. rib
  4. the underside of an insect's wing
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Etymology 2

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Deverbal from costar. First attested in 1598.

Noun

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costa f (plural costes)

  1. (law, usually in the plural) cost, expense (to be paid by the losing side)
  2. cost, expense
    a costa de ― at the cost/expense of; at (someone's) expense

Etymology 3

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Verb

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costa

  1. inflection of costar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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A costa da costa ("a slope by the coast")

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔsta/ [ˈkɔs̺.t̪ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔsta
  • Hyphenation: cos‧ta

Noun

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costa m (plural costas)

  1. side; flank
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:
      ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.
      There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out
  2. slope
  3. coast
  4. (anatomy, in the plural) back
    Dóenme as costas
    My back hurts

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.

Noun

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costa f (plural coste)

  1. meanings related to the literal sense:
    1. (anatomy, uncommon) rib
      Synonym: costola
    2. (anatomy, by extension, archaic) flank, side
      Synonym: fianco
    3. (by extension, archaic) side, part
      Synonyms: lato, parte
  2. (Romanesco) a cut of meat
  3. synonym of costola:
    1. spine (of a book)
      Synonym: dorso
  4. the blunt edge of a blade
    Synonym: dorso
    1. (botany) rib, vein
      Synonym: nervatura
    2. (architecture) rib
    3. (nautical) rib
      Synonym: corba
  5. the side of a height
    1. slope (of a mountain)
  6. a road going up the side of a hill
  7. (in the plural) pastures along the slope of a mountain
  8. coast, shoreline
  9. welt (of fabric)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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costa

  1. inflection of costare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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  • costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Ladin

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Verb

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costa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of coster
  2. third-person plural present indicative of coster
  3. second-person singular imperative of coster

Latin

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Etymology

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Of uncertain origin. The term is traditionally compared with Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), which may reflect Proto-Indo-European *kost-.[1] though De Vaan rejects this etymology. Derksen, however, considers a relationship between this term and Proto-Slavic *kostь to be "quite possible."[2] However, the connection is complicated if the Proto-Slavic term is derived from a pre-form *Host-, as such a term would not produce the Latin word. For this reason, De Vaan rejects the connection between the Slavic and Latin terms.[3]

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Noun

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costa f (genitive costae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) a rib
  2. (transferred sense) a side, a wall
    costae navium
    the sides of ships
    costae aheni
    the sides of a cauldron
    tergora diripere costis
    to tear off the skin

Inflection

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative costa costae
genitive costae costārum
dative costae costīs
accusative costam costās
ablative costā costīs
vocative costa costae

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Descendants

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  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: colta, >? costa
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: cuesta
    • Spanish: cuesta
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: costa
      • Galician: costa (“side, slope”)
      • Portuguese: costa (“side, slope”)
Borrowings
  • → Asturian: costa
  • → English: costa
  • →? Galician: costa
  • → Old French: coste (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Portuguese: costa
  • → Romansch: costa
  • → Spanish: costa

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References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 616
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “costa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140

Further reading

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  • “costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “costa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "costa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

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costa

Etymology

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From Latin costa (“side, rib”), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean “edge” or “coast”. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

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Noun

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast (shoreline)
    Synonyms: litoral, beira-mar

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kosˈta/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: cos‧ta

Verb

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a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat, third-person subjunctive coste) 1st conjugation

  1. to cost
    Synonyms: (informal) face, (now only figurative) prețui

Conjugation

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    conjugation of costa (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a costa
gerund costând
past participle costat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present cost coști costă costăm costați costă
imperfect costam costai costa costam costați costau
simple perfect costai costași costă costarăm costarăți costară
pluperfect costasem costaseși costase costaserăm costaserăți costaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să cost să coști să coste să costăm să costați să coste
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative costă costați
negative nu costa nu costați

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.sta/, [ˈkɔ.sta], [ˈkɔ.ʃta]
  • Rhymes: -osta
  • Hyphenation: cò‧sta

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), later coming to mean “edge” or “coast” in Medieval Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Noun

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costa f (plural costi)

  1. meanings related to the literal sense:
    1. (anatomy) rib
      Synonym: còstula
    2. (anatomy, by extension) flank, side
      Synonyms: ciancu, ciancata
    3. (by extension) side, part
      Synonyms: ciancata, latata, latu, parti
  2. (geology) slope (acclivity or declivity)
    Synonyms: calancu, pinnenza
    Jirisinni costi-costi.
    To go through the slopes.
  3. (geography) coast, shoreline
  4. (geography) a cuesta
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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costa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of custari

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.

Noun

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast, coastline
    Synonym: costera
  2. shore, shoreline
    Synonym: orilla del mar
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Etymology 2

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Deverbal from costar (“to cost”).

Noun

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costa f (plural costas)

  1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs
    vivir a costa de ― to live on the expense of
    a toda costa ― at all costs
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