coste

See also: Coste, costé, côté, côte, and Côte

Italian

Noun

coste f

1. plural of costa

Anagrams

• cesto, scote

Ladin

Verb

coste

1. first-person singular present indicative of coster
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of coster
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of coster
4. third-person plural present subjunctive of coster

Middle French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin costabor.

Old French coste

Middle French coste

Inherited from Old French coste, borrowed from Latin costa.

Noun

coste f (plural costes)

1. side (of an object)
2. (by extension) coast

Derived terms

• costelette

Descendants

• French: côte

Old French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin costabor.

Old French coste

Borrowed from Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tə/

Noun

coste oblique singular, f (oblique plural costes, nominative singular coste, nominative plural costes)

1. side (of an object)
2. (by extension) coast
3. (anatomy) rib

Descendants

• Middle French: coste
  • French: côte
• Norman: côte
• Walloon: coisse
• → Irish: cósta
• → Middle Dutch: cost
  • Dutch: kust
    • Afrikaans: kus
• → Middle English: coste
  • English: coast
• → Middle Low German: kost
  • German: Küste
  • → Danish: kyst
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kyst
  • → Swedish: kust

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoste]

Verb

coste

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of costa

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoste/ [ˈkos.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -oste
• Syllabification: cos‧te

Noun

coste m (plural costes)

1. cost

   Synonyms: costo, costa

   coste de producción ― production cost

   coste marginal ― marginal cost

Related terms

• costar

Further reading

• “coste”, 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