coa

coa

See also: COA, CoA, cóa, and co'a

English

Etymology

From Spanish coa.

Noun

coa (plural coas)

1. A primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil.

Anagrams

• AOC, CAO, Cao, OAC, oca

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.a/

Noun

coa f (plural coes)

1. Alternative form of cua

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Galician

Etymology 1

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

Contraction

coa f (masculine co, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

1. with the

   Non fales coa boca chea. ― Don't speak with your mouth full.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coa

1. third-person singular present indicative of coar
2. second-person singular imperative of coar

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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) IPA^(key): /ˈko.a/, [ˈkoä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.a/, [ˈkɔːä]

Noun

coa f (genitive coae); first declension

1. 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coa	coae
Genitive	coae	coārum
Dative	coae	coīs
Accusative	coam	coās
Ablative	coā	coīs
Vocative	coa	coae

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)

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Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coa f

1. tail

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Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. tail

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

coa

1. inflection of coar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Contraction

coa

1. (obsolete) Contraction of com a.

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Sardinian

Alternative forms

• coda (Nuorese)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoa/

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. (anatomy) tail
2. tail (tail-end of an object)
3. 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.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoa/ [ˈko.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: co‧a

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
2. (Chile, prison slang) low-class or criminal jargon

Derived terms

• coa de jima

Further reading

• “coa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014