costura

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kosˈtu.ɾa]

Noun

costura f (plural costures)

1. sewing, needlework
2. stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing)

Related terms

• cosir

Further reading

• “costura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “costura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “costura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “costura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• custura

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese costura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa̝/

Noun

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. stitches, stitching
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     a pẽna do mãto mays preçada et mays marauillosa era que outra que nũca home uisse, ca ela era en ssy enteyra, que en ela toda nõ auj́a peça nẽ costura.

     the mantle's hide was more precious and marvelous than any other that anyone had ever seen, because it was in itself whole, having no pieces or stiches

3. junction, joint in between boards
4. scar
5. (nautical, fishing) splice

Derived terms

• costureira
• costureiro

Related terms

• coser

References

• “costura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “costur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “custur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “costura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “costura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “costura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kosˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kosˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kosˈtu.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuʃˈtu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

Noun

costura f (plural costuras)

1. sewing
2. stitches

Derived terms

• costurar
• costureira

Related terms

• coser

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

costura

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

Further reading

• “costura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsutūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from cōnsuō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa/ [kosˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cos‧tu‧ra

Noun

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. (in clothing or machinery) seam, stitches
3. (nautical) seam
4. splice

Derived terms

• alta costura
• costurar
• costurero

 

Related terms

• coser

 

Further reading

• “costura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014