costa

Borrowed from Latin costa (cognate with coast).

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.

• (vein of insect wing): C

• costal
• costiform

• bone

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

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

costa f (plural costes)

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

• oriella

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ta/

costa f (plural costes)

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

• costal
• costàlgia
• costaner
• costat
• costejar
• costella

costa

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

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

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsta̝/

costa m (plural costas)

1. side
2. slope
3. coast
4. (anatomy, in the plural) ribs

   Dóenme as costas.

   My ribs hurt.

• “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “costa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “costa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “costa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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)

• (anatomy): costola

• costale

• costato

costa

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

• casto

costa

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

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

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

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.

First declension.

• costalis
• costātus

• os

• 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)

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

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

costa f (plural costas)

1. coast (shoreline)

• litoral, beira-mar

• Costa Rica

• costado
• costão, costear, costeiro
• costas, costela

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

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

1. to cost

   Synonym: prețui

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/, [ˈkost̪a]

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costa f (plural costas)

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

   vivir a costa de

• acostar
• costal m
• costero
• costado m
• costanero
• costo m
• coste m

• litoral m
• orilla f