coxinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• cossīnus, cussīnus, coisīnus, coissīnus

Etymology

From coxa (“thigh”) +‎ -īnus, possibly under the influence of pulvīnus (“cushion, pillow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kokˈsiː.nus/, [kɔkˈs̠iːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kokˈsi.nus/, [kokˈsiːnus]

Noun

coxīnus m (genitive coxīnī); second declension

1. (Early Medieval Latin) cushion, pillow

   Synonyms: pulvīnus, cervīcal, culcita

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coxīnus	coxīnī
genitive	coxīnī	coxīnōrum
dative	coxīnō	coxīnīs
accusative	coxīnum	coxīnōs
ablative	coxīnō	coxīnīs
vocative	coxīne	coxīnī

Descendants

• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: coxín (“cushion”)
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: coixí
• Old French: coissin, coussin, cuissin, cussin, quissin (Anglo-Norman)
  • Middle French: coissin
    • French: coussin (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: couossi
  • Walloon: cossén
  • → Italian: cuscino
  • → Middle English: quysshyn
    • English: cushion (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: cushin
  • → Sicilian: cuscinu
  • → Venetan: cusin
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: coxín
• Old Spanish: coxín
  • Spanish: cojín
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kussīn (see there for further descendants)

References

• "coxinus", 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)