couso

Galician

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkowso̝/

Noun

couso m (plural cousos)

  1. (nautical) port
    Synonyms: babor, couce

Etymology 2

From cousa (thing), from Latin causa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkowso̝/

Noun

couso m (plural cousos)

  1. thingy; thing (used as a wildcard for naming something which name we don't remember or ignore)
    E logo o couso ese ten Internet?
    And so this thingy has Internet?
    Synonyms: chintófano, chisme, conto

Etymology 3

Attested as causo in local Medieval Latin documents at least since the 9th century. Probably from Latin: compare capsa (box)[1] and capiō (I catch).

Last tract of a couso, Cotobade, Galicia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkowso̝/

Noun

couso m (plural cousos)

  1. large open box like container used for storing grain
  2. a trap for wolfs consisting of two long converging walls and a central walled pit where wolves were driven for being killed, usually in an annual basis
    Synonyms: foxo, lobeira
Derived terms
  • Couselo
  • Couso

References

  • couso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • couso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • couso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • couso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. caja.

Italian

Etymology

co- + uso

Noun

couso m (plural cousi)

  1. joint use

Latin

Participle

coūsō

  1. dative masculine singular of coūsus
  2. dative neuter singular of coūsus
  3. ablative masculine singular of coūsus
  4. ablative neuter singular of coūsus
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