coxa

Learned borrowing from Latin coxa, from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”). Doublet of cuisse.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒksə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑksə/
• Rhymes: -ɒksə

coxa (plural coxae)

1. (anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).

• coxopodite

• coxal
• coxa valga
• coxa vara

• coax

• conxa, cuxa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coixa, from Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoʃɐ]

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. (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 llugares

     if 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

2. (of chicken) leg

• perna

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “coyxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coyxa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

Inherited from Proto-Italic *koksā,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”). Whence also coxendīx, Old Irish cos (“foot, leg”) and Welsh coes (“leg, shank”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sa]

coxa f (genitive coxae); first declension

1. (anatomy) hip (joint), hipbone

   Synonyms: coxendīx, (Grecian) ischion

2. (Late Latin) thigh

First-declension noun.

• coxendīx

• Corsican: coscia
• Dalmatian: copsa
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: coapsã
  • Romanian: coapsă
  • → Albanian: kofshë
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: còsa
  • Ligurian: chéuscia
  • Lombard: còssa
  • Piedmontese: cheussa
• Istriot: cosa
• Italian: coscia
• Old 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
  • Romansh: coissa, quiessa, cuissa, cossa
• Sardinian: coscia, cossa
• Sicilian: coscia, coxa
  • → Maltese: koxxa
• Venetan: coxa, cosa
• → English: coxa

• “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.

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• Rhymes: -oʃɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧xa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coixa, from Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”).

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. thigh (part of the leg above the knee)
2. drumstick (leg of a bird eaten as food)
3. (arthropod anatomy) coxa (basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs)

coxa m or f by sense (plural coxas)

1. clipping of coxa-branca

coxa (invariable)

1. clipping of coxa-branca

coxa

1. feminine singular of coxo

• “coxa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “coxa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

coxa f (plural coxas)

1. coxa

• “coxa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025