different between costa vs midvein

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin costa (cognate with coast).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?/

Noun

costa (plural costas or costae)

1. (anatomy) A rib.
2. (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.
   1. (entomology) The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.

Synonyms

• (vein of insect wing): C

Derived terms

• costal
• costiform

Translations

See also

• bone

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coats, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coast, coats, octas, scato-, scoat, tacos

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin costa, possibly through the intermediate of another language; compare Spanish costa, Galician costa. Doublet of cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

1. shore (land adjoining a large body of water)

Synonyms

• oriella

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?k?s.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?s.ta/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Noun

costa f (plural costes)

1. coast
2. slope
3. rib
4. the underside of an insect's wing

Derived terms

• Costa d'Ivori
• Costa d'Or
• coster
• costaner
• costejar
• costella

Related terms

• costal
• costàlgia
• costat

Etymology 2

Verb

costa

1. third-person singular present indicative form of costar
2. second-person singular imperative form of costar

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sta?/

Noun

costa m (plural costas)

1. side; flank
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:

     ffazese nas costas do Cauallo h?a door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende h?a peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.

     There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out

2. slope
3. coast
4. (anatomy, in the plural) ribs

Derived terms

References

• “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “costa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “costa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “costa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “costa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s.ta/
• Rhymes: -?sta
• Hyphenation: cò?sta

Etymology 1

From Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coast?, and Spanish cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural coste)

1. Meanings related to the literal sense:
   1. (anatomy, uncommon) rib

      Synonym: costola

   2. (anatomy, by extension, archaic) flank, side

      Synonym: fianco

   3. (by extension, archaic) side, part

      Synonyms: lato, parte

   4. (Rome) A cut of meat.
2. Synonym of costola:
   1. spine (of a book)

      Synonym: dorso

   2. The blunt edge of a blade.

      Synonym: dorso

   3. (botany) rib, vein

      Synonym: nervatura

   4. (architecture) rib
   5. (nautical) rib

      Synonym: corba

3. The side of a height.
   1. slope (of a mountain)
   2. A road going up the side of a hill.
   3. (in the plural) Pastures along the slope of a mountain.
4. coast, shoreline
5. welt (of fabric)

Derived terms

• costale
• costeggiare
• costereccio
• costiera
• costiero

Related terms

• costato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

costa

1. inflection of costare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• casto

References

• costa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Ladin

Verb

costa

1. third-person singular present indicative of coster
2. third-person plural present indicative of coster
3. second-person singular imperative of coster

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kost- (compare Old Church Slavonic ????? (kost?), Middle Persian [Term?] (kust) ); compare *h?ost-, whence os (“bone”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kos.ta/, [?k?s?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kos.ta/, [?k?st??]

Noun

costa f (genitive costae); first declension

1. (anatomy) a rib
2. a side, a wall

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cost?lis
• cost?tus

Descendants

See also

• os

References

• costa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• costa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• costa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin costa (“side, rib”), in later and Medieval Latin coming to mean "edge" or "coast". Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?s.ta/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k??.t?/

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

1. coast (shoreline)

   Synonyms: litoral, beira-mar

Derived terms

• Costa Rica

Related terms

• costado
• costão, costear, costeiro
• costas, costela

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian costare, from Latin const?re, present active infinitive of const?. Doublet of the inherited (now archaic) custa and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

Verb

a costa (third-person singular present cost?, past participle costat) 1st conj.

1. to cost

   Synonym: pre?ui

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kosta/, [?kos.t?a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

1. coast, shore, coastline, shoreline

Derived terms

Related terms

• acostar
• costal m
• costero
• costado m
• costanero

See also

• litoral m
• orilla f

Etymology 2

From costar (“to cost”).

Noun

costa f (plural costas)

1. (in certain expressions) expense, costs

Derived terms

• a toda costa
• a costa de

Related terms

• costo m
• coste m

English

Etymology

mid- +? vein

Noun

midvein (plural midveins)

1. (botany) The main vein of a simple leaf or leaflet, running from the petiole to its apex, and from which the other veins usually spread.

   Synonyms: midrib, middle rib