cuisse
English
Etymology
From French cuisse (“thigh”); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɪs/, /kwiːs/
- Rhymes: -ɪs, -iːs
Noun
cuisse (plural cuisses)
- Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.
- Synonyms: cuisset, cuissette, cuisser, cush
- Coordinate terms: cuissard, chausse, chausson
Alternative forms
- cuish, quish
See also
- quisser, quisset
French
Etymology
From Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”), from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-. Compare hanche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɥis/
audio (file) - Homophone: cuisses
Noun
cuisse f (plural cuisses)
- (anatomy) thigh
Derived terms
- avoir la cuisse accueillante
- avoir la cuisse gaie
- avoir la cuisse hospitalière
- avoir la cuisse légère
- écarter les cuisses
- se croire sorti de la cuisse de Jupiter
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kwis
- → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
Further reading
- “cuisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- cuises
Old French
Alternative forms
- quisse
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).
Noun
cuisse f (oblique plural cuisses, nominative singular cuisse, nominative plural cuisses)
- thigh
Descendants
- French: cuisse
- Haitian Creole: kwis
- → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
- Bourguignon: cueusse
- Gallo: qhesse
- Lorrain: cueuche
- Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
- Walloon: coxhe
- → Walloon: cwisse