coix

New Latin, from Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).[1]

coix (uncountable)

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

• oxic

Inherited from Latin cōxus, perhaps derived from coxa (“hip”). Compare Aragonese coixo.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkoʃ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkojʃ]

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

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

• encoixir

• “coix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “coix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coix”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “coix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Ancient Greek κόϊξ (kóïx).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.iks/, [ˈkoɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.iks/, [ˈkɔːiks]

coix f (genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Third-declension noun.

• Translingual: Coix

• “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.