coxendix

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *koksednī-k-, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱse-dn-iH. According to Pinault, related to Tocharian A kapśañi and Tocharian B kektseñe (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *koksedon. Coxendīx may then represent a feminine derivative *kokse-dn-ih₂. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence Latin coxa (“hip”). Cognate with Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “armpit”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬱𐬀 (kaša, “armpit”), Tocharian B kakse (“midriff loins”) and Old Irish cos (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔkˈsɛn.diːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kokˈsɛn.diks]
• Ouside very fragmented instances, the word is attested in poetry once in Plautus, requiring a long -ī- (see quotation). Some dictionaries (e.g. Lewis & Short and the Gaffiot 2016) may be wrong in reporting this word with short -i-.

Noun

coxendīx f (genitive coxendīcis); third declension

1. (anatomy) hip, hipbone

   Synonyms: coxa, (Grecian) ischion

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.43–45 (metre: anapaestic system):

     [Philoxenus] Tāctus sum vehementer viscō;
     cor stimulō foditur. [Nicobulus] Pol tibi mul-
     tō aequius est coxendīcem.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti 80:

     Coxendice et femore et crure sinistro non perinde ualebat, [...]

     He felt pain in his left hip, thigh and leg, [...]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coxendīx	coxendīcēs
genitive	coxendīcis	coxendīcum
dative	coxendīcī	coxendīcibus
accusative	coxendīcem	coxendīcēs
ablative	coxendīce	coxendīcibus
vocative	coxendīx	coxendīcēs

Further reading

• “coxendix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coxendix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.