costa
English
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) A rib.
- (biology) A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin costa (rib, side, edge, wall).
Origin
Latin
costa
Gloss
rib, side, edge, wall
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
端, 縁
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- basicosta English
- costamere English
- costapalmate English
- costiferous English
- costiform English
- costovertebral English
- palmate English
- subcosta English
- vertebral English
- albicostus Latin
- costa Latin
- costula Latin
- cōnstō Latin
- flavicostus Latin
- fuscicostus Latin
- nigricostus Latin
- pallidicostus Latin
- rubricostus Latin
- Costa Italian
- accostare Italian
- costa Italian
- Côté French
- Cuesta Spanish, Castilian
- cuesta Spanish, Castilian
- *kost- Proto-Indo-European
- kyst Norwegian Bokmål
- costa Portuguese
- da Costa Portuguese
- kyst Norwegian Nynorsk
- coste Old French
- Costa Catalan, Valencian
- costa Catalan, Valencian
- Dacosta Galician
- costeiro Galician
- costela Galician
- coastă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kost Middle High German
- costa Old Portuguese
- costas Old Portuguese
- coastã Aromanian
- Costa Occitan
- còsta Occitan
- kustilja Maltese
- costa Asturian
- costiella Asturian
- cueste Friulian
- coste xno
- cuasta Dalmatian