cosca
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sicilian cosca (“rib, branch”), from Late Latin costula, diminutive of costa (“rib”). Doublet of costola.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cosca f (plural cosche)
- clan (of the Mafia)
- coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp
Anagrams
[edit]Old Irish
[edit]Verb
[edit]·cosca
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of cócegas. Compare Spanish coscas.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]cosca f (plural coscas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cosca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]cosca
- only used in se cosca, third-person singular present indicative of coscarse
- only used in te ... cosca, syntactic variant of cóscate, second-person singular imperative of coscarse
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- Italian terms borrowed from Sicilian
- Italian terms derived from Sicilian
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian doublets
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔska
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔska/2 syllables
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- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Collectives
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
- Old Irish verb forms
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Portuguese countable nouns
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- Spanish non-lemma forms
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