coxa
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- 13
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- 14
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Definition of coxa
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh₂ Proto-Italic *koksā Latin coxalbor. English coxa Learned borrowing from Latin coxa, from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh₂, from *koḱs- (“joint, limb”) + *-eh₂. Doublet of cuisse.
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