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coix

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

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coil

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /k??l/
  • Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle French coillir (to gather, pluck, pick, cull) (French: cueillir), from Latin colligo (to gather together), past participle collectus, from com- (together) + lego (to gather); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
    • The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
  2. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
  3. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
    Synonym: inductor
  4. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • ? Japanese: ??? (koiru)
Translations

Verb

coil (third-person singular simple present coils, present participle coiling, simple past and past participle coiled)

  1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
  2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
  3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
  4. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
    • a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
      Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare


Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

  1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
    • a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
      And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed []
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III:
      If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?
    • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 162:
      this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.
Derived terms
  • mortal coil
Translations

Further reading

  • coil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • coil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Clio, coli, loci

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [k?l?]

Noun 1

coil m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of col (prohibition; sin, lust; violation; dislike; incest; relation, relationship)

Noun 2

coil m

  1. inflection of col (col):
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

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