coxa

See also: соха

English

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”). Doublet of cuisse.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coxa (plural coxae)

1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

Synonyms

• coxopodite

Derived terms

• coxalgia
• coxarthrosis
• coxitis
• coxopleural
• coxosternite
• forecoxa
• mesocoxa
• praecoxa
• precoxa
• procoxa
• subcoxa

 

Related terms

• coxal
• coxa valga
• coxa vara

Translations

basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs

• Portuguese: coxa (pt) f
• Spanish: coxa (es)

Anagrams

• coax

Galician

Alternative forms

• conxa, cuxa

Etymology

From an older coyxa (14th century), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoʃɐ]

Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. (anatomy) thigh, the upper leg

   Synonym: coxote

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares

     if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places

2. (of chicken) leg

See also

• perna

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coyxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coyxa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coxa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.sa/, [ˈkɔks̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkok.sa/, [ˈkɔksä]

Noun

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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

• coxālis
• coxārius
• coxendix
• coxigō
• coxim
• coxīnus, cossīnus
• coxō
• coxus
• incoxō

Descendants

• Corsican: coscia
• Dalmatian: copsa
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: coapsã
  • Romanian: coapsă
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: chéuscia
  • Lombard: còssa
  • Piedmontese: cheussa
• Istriot: cosa
• Italian: coscia
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: cuixa
• Neapolitan: coscia
• Old French: cuisse, quisse
  • French: cuisse
    • Haitian Creole: kwis
    • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
  • Bourguignon: cueusse
  • Champenois: cueche
  • Gallo: qhesse
  • Lorrain: cueuche
  • Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
  • Walloon: coxhe
  • → Walloon: cwisse
• Old Leonese:
  • Mirandese: coixa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: cuixa
  • Occitan: cuèissa
• Old Galician-Portuguese: coyxa (Medieval Galician)
  • Galician: coxa
  • Portuguese: coxa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: cuja
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cuesse
  • Romansch: coissa, quiessa, cuissa, cossa
• Sardinian: coscia, cossa
• Sicilian: coscia, cuoscia
  • → Maltese: koxxa
• Venetan: cosa
• → Albanian: kofshë
• → English: coxa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ʃɐ/

• Hyphenation: co‧xa

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese coixa, coissa, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

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

• coxa valga
• coxa vara
• coxa-branca
• coxal
• coxão
• coxinha
• em cima das coxas
• encoxar
• feito nas coxas
• nas coxas

 

Noun

coxa m or f by sense (plural coxas)

1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Adjective

coxa (invariable)

1. Clipping of coxa-branca.

Etymology 2

Adjective

coxa

1. feminine singular of coxo

Spanish

Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. coxa

Further reading

• “coxa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28