costa

costa

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English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒ.stə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.stə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒstə

Noun

costa (plural costas or costae)

  1. (anatomy) Synonym of rib.
  2. (botany, zootomy) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib 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.
      Synonym: C

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • bone
  • guarda costa (etymologically unrelated)

References

  • “costa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “costa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Ascot, Casto, Coast, Coats, Cotas, Sacto, ascot, catso, coast, coats, octas, scato-, scoat, tacos

Asturian

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)

Synonyms

  • oriella

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔs.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔs.ta]

Etymology 1

Inherited 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
Derived terms
Related terms
  • costal
  • costàlgia
  • costat

Etymology 2

Deverbal from costar. First attested in 1598.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

  1. (law, usually in the plural) cost, expense (to be paid by the losing side)
  2. cost, expense
    a costa de ― at the cost/expense of; at (someone's) expense

Etymology 3

Verb

costa

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

Further reading

  • “costa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “costa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “costa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “costa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔsta̝/

Noun

costa m (plural costas)

  1. side; flank
  2. slope
  3. coast
  4. (anatomy, in the plural) back

Derived terms

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.sta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsta
  • Hyphenation: cò‧sta

Etymology 1

From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural coste)

  1. meanings related to the literal sense:
    1. (anatomy, uncommon) rib
      Synonym: costola
    2. (anatomy, by extension, archaic) flank, side
      Synonym: fianco
    3. (by extension, archaic) side, part
      Synonyms: lato, parte
  2. (Rome) a cut of meat
  3. Synonym of costola:
    1. spine (of a book)
      Synonym: dorso
  4. the blunt edge of a blade
    Synonym: dorso
    1. (botany) rib, vein
      Synonym: nervatura
    2. (architecture) rib
    3. (nautical) rib
      Synonym: corba
  5. the side of a height
    1. slope (of a mountain)
  6. a road going up the side of a hill
  7. (in the plural) pastures along the slope of a mountain
  8. coast, shoreline
  9. welt (of fabric)
Derived terms
  • costale
  • costeggiare
  • costereccio
  • costiera
  • costiero
Related terms
  • costato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

costa

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

Further reading

  • costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • Tasco, casto, scato-, scota, tosca

Ladin

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ko(n/r)stā- (“rib”), of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kost-, and compared with Old Church Slavonic кость (kostĭ), Middle Persian [script needed] (kust), as well as *h₃ost- (“bone”), whence os (“bone”). However, de Vaan finds the connection with Slavic improbable and gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔs̠t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkos.ta/, [ˈkɔst̪ä]

Noun

costa f (genitive costae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) a rib
  2. (transferred sense) a side, a wall

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • costābilis
  • costālis
  • costātus
  • costella

Descendants

See also

  • os

References

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast (shoreline)
    Synonyms: litoral, beira-mar

Derived terms

  • Costa do Marfim
  • Costa Rica

Related terms

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • коста (costa) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin constāre. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kosˈta/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: cos‧ta

Verb

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

  1. to cost
    Synonym: prețui

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -osta
  • Syllabification: cos‧ta

Etymology 1

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

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. coast, shore, coastline, shoreline
Derived terms
Related terms

See also

  • litoral m
  • orilla f

Etymology 2

Deverbal from costar (“to cost”).

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

  1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs
    vivir a costa de ― to live on the expense of
    a toda costa ― at all costs
Derived terms
Related terms

Further reading

  • “costa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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