Abbreviation ofEnglishCocos IslandsMalay.
coa
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forCocos Islands Malay.
FromSpanishcoa.
coa (pluralcoas)
- Aprimitivehoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used byNative Americans to till the soil.
coa f (pluralcoes)
- alternative form ofcua
From contraction of prepositioncon(“with”) + feminine definite articlea(“the”).
- IPA(key): /ˈkäː/
- Hyphenation:coa
coa f (masculineco,masculine pluralcos,feminine pluralcoas)
- withthe
- Non falescoa boca chea. ―Don't speakwith your mouth full.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
coa
- inflection ofcoar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
- “con”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coa”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coa”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
FromLatincubō(“to lie down”),[1] fromProto-Italic*kubāō, fromProto-Indo-European*ḱewb-. CompareItaliancovo.
coa f (pluralcoes)
- (Gherdëina, Badiot, Fascian)nest
- La rondules à fatcoa. ―The swallows have built anest.
- (figurative)home
- Chësta ie mi pitlacoa. ―This is my littlehome.
- ^Wörterbuch der Grödner Mundart.- (Schlern-Schriften ; 23) - Arcangjul Lardschneider[1]. Teßmann
After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form ofcoeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.
coa f (genitivecoae);first declension
- lustful woman,prostitute
95CE, Quintillian,
Institutio Oratoria 8.6.52:
- ...in tricliniocoam, in cubiculo nolam....
- ...Coan in the dining-room,noan in the bedroom...
First-declension noun.
Akin toItaliancoda, from Latincauda.
coa f
- tail
FromVulgar Latincōda, variant ofLatincauda. Cognate withCatalancua andFrenchqueue.
coa f (pluralcoas)
- tail
Fromecthlipsis ofcom.
coa f sg
- (chiefly poetic)contraction ofcoma(“with the”):femininesingular ofco
- Synonym:ca(colloquial)
Inherited fromLatincōda, variant ofcauda.Doublet ofcauda.
coa f (pluralcoas)
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Deverbal fromcoar.
coa f (pluralcoas)
- straining;filtering
- Synonym:coação
- strained liquid
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
coa
- inflection ofcoar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
- “coa”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “coa”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “coa”, inDicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
- “coa”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “coa”, inDicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
FromVulgar Latincōda, from Latincauda, fromProto-Italic*kaudā, fromProto-Indo-European*keh₂udeh₂.
coa f (pluralcoas)
- (anatomy)tail
- tail(tail-end of an object)
- lap(upper legs of a sitting person)
- Sa mama si ponet incoa su fizu, ei su fizu si ponetcoa de sa mama. ―The mother takes her son on herlap, and her son sits on his mother'slap.
- IPA(key): /ˈkoa/[ˈko.a]
- Rhymes:-oa
- Syllabification:co‧a
coa f (pluralcoas)
- primitivehoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
- (Chile, prisonslang) low-class or criminal jargon
