costa

See also: Costa, cósta, costá, costà, costâ, and cô ta

English

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costa

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒ.stə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (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

• basicosta
• costal
• costapalmate
• costiferous
• costiform
• costovertebral
• subcosta

Translations

rib — see rib

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]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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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

• Costa Brava
• Costa d'Ivori
• Costa d'Or
• Costa Daurada
• Costa del Sol
• Costa Oest dels Estats Units
• costaner
• costejar
• costella
• coster

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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:

     ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.

     There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out

2. slope
3. coast
4. (anatomy, in the plural) back

   Dóenme as costas

   My back hurts

Derived terms

• Costa
• Costado
• costado
• Costal
• costal
• Costaneira
• costaneiro
• costeira
• Costeira
• costeiro
• Costeiro
• Costela
• Costenla
• gardacostas
• Recosta
• recosta
• recostar

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): /ˈkɔs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔsta
• Hyphenation: cò‧sta

Etymology 1

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Costa

Wikipedia ^it

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. (Romanesco) 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