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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

English

Etymology

Shortening of coxswain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• (US) enPR: käks, IPA^(key): /k?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: cocks

Noun

cox (plural coxes)

1. A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew. [from mid-19th C.]

Derived terms

• coxless
• coxie

Verb

cox (third-person singular simple present coxes, present participle coxing, simple past and past participle coxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as coxswain for.

   The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

   I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Derived terms

• coxed

Anagrams

• CXO, CxO

Chol

Noun

cox

1. A crested guan, Penelope purpurascens

Swedish

Etymology

From English cox

Noun

cox c

1. a cox

Declension

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cuix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?/

Adverb

cox

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonyms: beli?s, cana, mati?

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 82, 94, 117