coxa

English

Diagram of an insect’s leg. The coxa is the second segment shown from the left.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒksə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒksə

Noun

coxa (plural coxae)

  1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
  • coxal
  • coxa valga
  • coxa vara

Translations

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)

  1. (anatomy) thigh, the upper leg

See also

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence also Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkok.sa/, [ˈkɔk.sa]

Noun

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone
  2. (Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin) thigh

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative coxa coxae
genitive coxae coxārum
dative coxae coxīs
accusative coxam coxās
ablative coxā coxīs
vocative coxa coxae

Synonyms

  • (hip-joint of hipbone): ischion (Grecian)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • coxa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • coxa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”), from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-.

Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)

  1. thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
  2. drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
  3. (arthropod anatomy) coxa (basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs)
Derived terms

Noun

coxa m, f (plural coxas)

  1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Adjective

coxa (invariable, comparable)

  1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Etymology 2

Adjective

coxa

  1. Feminine singular of adjective coxo.
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