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costa

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔs.ta/

“costa” is an Italian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. rib
  2. flank, side
  3. side, part
  4. a cut of meat
  5. synonym of costola
  6. spine (of a book)
  7. rib, vein
  8. the side of a height
  9. slope (of a mountain)
  10. a road going up the side of a hill
  11. pastures along the slope of a mountain
  12. coast, shoreline
  13. welt (of fabric)

In Italian

  1. zona di terraferma prospiciente il mare dove le onde vanno ad infrangersi
  2. osso pari e simmetrico del torace, che con altre, lo sterno e le vertebre toraciche forma la gabbia toracica, che protegge il cuore e i polmoni

Etymology

Inherited from Latin costa. Cognate with French côte, Romanian coastă, and Spanish cuesta.

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