coa

From Spanish coa.

coa (plural coas)

1. A primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil.

• AOC, CAO, Cao, OAC, oca

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈko.a]

coa f (plural coes)

1. Alternative form of cua

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + feminine definite article a (“the”).

coa f (masculine co, masculine plural cos, feminine plural coas)

1. with the

   Non fales coa boca chea. ― Don't speak with your mouth full.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coa

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

After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form of coeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.a/, [ˈkoä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.a/, [ˈkɔːä]

coa f (genitive coae); first declension

1. lustful woman, prostitute
   • 95 CE, Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.52:

     ...in triclinio coam, in cubiculo nolam....

     ...Coan in the dining-room, noan in the bedroom...

First-declension noun.

• coa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

coa f

1. tail

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda. Cognate with French queue.

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coa f (plural coas)

1. tail

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

coa

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

coa

1. (archaic) Contraction of com a.

• coda (Nuorese)

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic *kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂udeh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoa/

coa f (plural coas)

1. (anatomy) tail
2. tail (tail-end of an object)
3. lap (upper legs of a sitting person)

   Sa mama si ponet in coa su fizu, ei su fizu si ponet coa de sa mama. ― The mother takes her son on her lap, and her son sits on his mother's lap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoa/ [ˈko.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: co‧a

coa f (plural coas)

1. primitive hoe, a sharp wooden rod formerly used by Native Americans to till the soil
2. (Chile, prison slang) low-class or criminal jargon

• “coa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014