different between coif vs coix

English

Alternative forms

• coiffe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?f/, /k??f/

  Rhymes: -?f, -??f

• Homophone: quaff

Etymology 1

From Middle English coif, coife, coyf, coyfe, coyffe, from Old French coife, coiffe, from Late Latin cofia, from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, related to Old High German kupphia, kupha, kupfe (“mug, hood, cap”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppij? (“cap, hat , bonnet, headpiece”), Proto-Germanic *kupp? (“vat, mug, cup”), from pre-Germanic *kubná-, from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object, knoll”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-, *g?- (“to bend, curve, arch, vault”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap, headgear, helmet”).

Noun

coif (plural coifs)

1. A hairdo.
2. (historical) A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until the 18th century; after that worn only by small children and country women.
3. (historical) An item of chain mail headgear.
4. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     The judges, […] although they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet are they considerable.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English coifen, from Old French coifier, from the noun (see above).

Verb

coif (third-person singular simple present coifs, present participle coiffing or coifing, simple past and past participle coiffed or coifed)

1. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.
   • 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:

     Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

Translations

Anagrams

• FICO, fico, foci

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin cofia. Compare French coiffe.

Noun

coif n (plural coifuri)

1. casque

See also

• casc?

English

Etymology

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Noun

coix (uncountable)

1. An East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

Anagrams

• oxic

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin c?xus (“lame”), from Latin coxa. Compare Spanish cojo, Portuguese coxo, Aragonese coixo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ko?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?koj?/

Adjective

coix (feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

Further reading

• “coix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kóïx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?ko?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.iks/, [?k??iks]

Noun

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Coix

References

• coix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette