cosa

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See also: Cosa, cósa, and cosà

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin causa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkosa/
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: co‧sa

Noun

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cosa f (plural cosas)

  1. thing (that which exists as a separate entity)
    • 2010, Academia de l’Aragonés, Propuesta ortografica de l'Academia de l'Aragonés, 2nd edition, Edacar, page 67:
      Nombres propios d’animals, cosas y conceptos singularizaus: []
      Proper names of animals, things and singularised concepts: []

Pronoun

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cosa

  1. nothing (not any thing)
    • May-August 2014, Fuellas, Consello d’a Fabla Aragonesa, page 26:
      Respondioron: muito 0,00 % / prou 33,3 % / poco 66,7 % / cosa 0,00 %
      They answered: a lot 0.00% / enough 33.3% / a little 66.7% / nothing 0.00%

Asturian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Leonese cosa.

Noun

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cosa f (plural coses)

  1. thing

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin causa. Compare Occitan causa and chausa, French chose, Spanish cosa, Italian cosa. Doublet of causa, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosa f (plural coses)

  1. thing
  2. affair, matter

Derived terms

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Pronoun

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cosa

  1. (Alghero, Italianism) what (interrogative)
    Cosa voleu?What do you want?

Usage notes

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  • The Italianism cosa? ('what?') is found within Algherese and is commonly used by speakers thereof, but is deemed by the IEC as something to be avoided.

See also

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References

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  • “cosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • cosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “cosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 33

Galician

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Verb

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cosa

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

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Noun

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cosa (plural cosas)

  1. thing

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosa f pl

  1. nominative/dative plural of cos

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cosa chosa gcosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (thigh), from Latin coxa (hip).

Noun

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cosa f

  1. thigh

Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of the borrowing causa. The pronoun is a clipping of che cosa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosa f (plural cose)

  1. thing, matter

Pronoun

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cosa

  1. what?
  2. what!

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Old French

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Noun

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cosa oblique singularf (oblique plural cosas, nominative singular cosa, nominative plural cosas)

  1. (very early Old French) Alternative form of chose

Usage notes

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Old Leonese

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Alternative forms

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  • cousa (Bierzo, Cepeda; Western León)

Etymology

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From Latin causa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosa m (plural cosas)

  1. thing
    • 1017, Fuero de León:
      Mandamos que nengunno non sea ossado de tomar neguna cosa per roba dela yglesia;
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1243, Venta de una heredad en Villar (Cepeda)[1]:
      de la gram cousa ata la pechena
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1247, Fuero de Campumanes[2]:
      Conuszuda cosa sea a todos los omes
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1256, "El abad del Montasterio de Espinareda concede fueros a los pobladores de Outero de Langre."[3]:
      Conoçuda cousa sea a quantos esta carta viren e audiren
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

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  • Asturian: cosa, cousa
  • Leonese: cousa
  • Mirandese: cousa

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin causa. Cognates include Middle English cause, Old French chose, Old Galician-Portuguese cousa, Italian cosa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cosa

  1. thing

Descendants

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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cosa

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Hyphenation: cò‧sa

Noun

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cosa f (plural cosi)

  1. thing

Further reading

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  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “cosa”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 994–997

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of the borrowing causa. Cognates include French chose, Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa.

Noun

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cosa f (plural cosas)

  1. thing (object, concept)
  2. (informal) thing (living being or creature)
    cosas hermosaspretty [little] things
Alternative forms
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  • coso (dialectal, for masculine nouns)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cosa

  1. inflection of coser:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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