# coxa
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒksə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɑksə/
* Rhymes: -ɒksə

### Noun

coxa (plural coxae)
* (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
### 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: [ˈkoʃɐ]

### Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)
* (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 llugaresif 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
* (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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coxa”, 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), “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 coxendīx, Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension
* (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone
    Synonyms: coxendīx, (Grecian) ischion
* (Late Latin) thigh

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* Corsican: coscia
* Dalmatian: copsa
* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: coapsã
** Romanian: coapsă
** → Albanian: kofshë
* 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
* → 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.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
* drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
* (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)
* Clipping of coxa-branca.

#### Adjective

coxa (invariable)
* Clipping of coxa-branca.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

coxa
* feminine singular of coxo

## Spanish
### Noun

coxa f (plural coxas)
* coxa

### Further reading

* “coxa”, 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