costa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin costa (cognate with coast).

Noun

costa (plural costas or costae)

1. (anatomy) A rib.
2. (biology) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib 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.

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coats, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coast, coats, octas, scoat, tacos

Etymology

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

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

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

Etymology

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

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

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

Verb

costa

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

References

• Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). →ISBN.

Etymology

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

Noun

costa f (plural coste)

1. coast
2. shore
3. slope (of a mountain)
4. (anatomy) rib
5. (botany) rib, vein
6. spine (of a book)
7. welt (of fabric)

Verb

costa

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

Anagrams

• casto

Verb

costa

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kost- (compare Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian [Term?] (kust) ); compare *h₃ost-, whence os (“bone”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔs.ta]

Noun

costa f (genitive costae); first declension

1. (anatomy) a rib
2. 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.

See also

• os

References

• 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, 1883–1887)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ta/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.tɐ/

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

1. coast (shoreline)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre, present active infinitive of constō. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa.

Verb

a costa (third-person singular present costă, past participle costat) 1st conj.

1. to cost

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/, [ˈkost̪a]

• Audio (Latin America)

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Noun

costa f (plural costas)

1. coast, shore
2. expense, costs in certain expressions.

   vivir a costa de

See also

• litoral m
• orilla f