cosca

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian cosca (“rib, branch”), dialectal variant of Sicilian costa. Doublet of costola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔska
• Hyphenation: cò‧sca

Noun

cosca f (plural cosche)

1. clan (of the Mafia)
2. coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp

Anagrams

• Sacco, Scoca, casco, cascò, sacco

Old Irish

Verb

·cosca

1. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of con·secha

Portuguese

Etymology

Alteration of cócegas. Compare Spanish coscas.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔskɐ, (Portugal) -ɔʃkɐ

Noun

cosca f (plural coscas)

1. (informal) tickle

   Synonyms: cócegas, (informal) cosquinha

Derived terms

• cosquento
• cosquinha
• fazer cosca

Further reading

• “cosca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cosca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “cosca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Verb

cosca

1. only used in se cosca, third-person singular present indicative of coscarse
2. only used in te ... cosca, syntactic variant of cóscate, second-person singular imperative of coscarse