coa

See also: COA, CoA, cóa, co-a, 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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.a]

Noun

coa f (plural coes)

1. Alternative form of cua

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. inflection of coar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. 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^(key): /ˈko.a/, [ˈkoä]
• (modern Italianate 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)

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coa f

1. tail

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. tail

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

Etymology 2

Contraction

coa

1. (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^(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.

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