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Costa

//ˈkɒ.stə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from the Romance languages.

    "Although Costa retained his contacts with the royal family, Gye was able to develop his own close relationship with the operaphile Prince of Wales, for whose mistress Pauline Lucca he occasionally rescheduled the programme."

  2. 2
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from Italian.

    "Coccinelle, the flamboyant star of a female-impersonation revue at the Carrousel Club in Paris, recounted the saga of her physical transformation to Italiaan journalist Mario Costa."

  3. 3
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from Galician.
  4. 4
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from French.
  5. 5
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from French.; A surname from Occitan.
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  1. 6
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from Spanish.
  2. 7
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from Spanish.; A Catalonian surname from Catalan.
  3. 8
    A surname from the Romance languages.; A surname from Portuguese.
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of rib.
  2. 2
    any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) wordnet
  3. 3
    A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
  4. 4
    a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) wordnet
  5. 5
    A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.; The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.

Etymology 2

From pan-Romance (Portuguese Costa, Galician Costa, Spanish Costa, Catalan Costa, Occitan Costa, French Costa, Italian Costa), from Latin costa (“rib; side”).

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