# coa
## Translingual
### Symbol

coa
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cocos Islands Malay.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Cocos Islands Malay terms

## English
### Etymology

From Spanish coa.

### Noun

coa (plural coas)
* A primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil.

### Anagrams

* AOC, CAO, Cao, OAC, oca

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈko.a]

### Noun

coa f (plural coes)
* Alternative form of cua

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + feminine definite article a (“the”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkäː/

#### Contraction

coa f (masculine co, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)
* with the
    Non fales coa boca chea. ― Don't speak with your mouth full.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔɐ/

#### Verb

coa
* inflection of coar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Etymology

After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form of coeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈko.a/, [ˈkoä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.a/, [ˈkɔːä]

### Noun

coa f (genitive coae); first declension
* lustful woman, prostitute
** 95 CE, Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.52:...in triclinio coam, in cubiculo nolam.......Coan in the dining-room, noan in the bedroom...

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* "coa", 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)

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

### Noun

coa f
* tail

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda. Cognate with French queue.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coa f (plural coas)
* tail

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

coa
* inflection of coar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Contraction

coa
* (archaic) Contraction of com a.

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* coda (Nuorese)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic *kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂udeh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoa/

### Noun

coa f (plural coas)
* (anatomy) tail
* tail (tail-end of an object)
* lap (upper legs of a sitting person)
    Sa mama si ponet in coa su fizu, ei su fizu si ponet coa de sa mama. ― The mother takes her son on her lap, and her son sits on his mother's lap.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoa/ [ˈko.a]
* Rhymes: -oa
* Syllabification: co‧a

### Noun

coa f (plural coas)
* primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
* (Chile, prison slang) low-class or criminal jargon

#### Derived terms

* coa de jima

### Further reading

* “coa”, 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