coa

See also: COA, CoA, cóa, co-a, and co'a

Translingual

Symbol

coa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cocos Islands Malay.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cocos Islands Malay terms

English

Etymology

From Spanish coa.

Noun

coa (plural coas)

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

Anagrams

• AOC, CAO, Cao, OAC, oca

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coa f (plural coes)

1. Alternative form of cua

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkäː/
• Hyphenation: coa

Contraction

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.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɐ/

Verb

coa

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

References

• “con”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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...

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coa	coae
genitive	coae	coārum
dative	coae	coīs
accusative	coam	coās
ablative	coā	coīs
vocative	coa	coae

References

• "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)

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian coda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

coa f

1. tail

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. tail

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kwa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kwɐ/

Contraction

coa

1. (archaic or poetic) Contraction of com a.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cōda, variant of cauda. Doublet of cauda.

Alternative forms

• côa (pre-1990 spelling)

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

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Etymology 3

Deverbal from coar.

Alternative forms

• côa (pre-1990 spelling)

Noun

coa f (plural coas)

1. straining; filtering

   Synonym: coação

2. strained liquid

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• côa (pre-1990 spelling)

Verb

coa

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

Further reading

• “coa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “coa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “coa”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “coa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “coa”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• coda (Nuorese)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoa/

Noun

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.

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• coa de jima

Further reading

• “coa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10