couso
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Galician
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From cousa (“thing”), from Latin causa.
Noun
[edit]couso m (plural cousos)
- thingy; thing (used as a wildcard for naming something which name we don't remember or ignore)
- Synonyms: chintófano, chisme, conto
- E logo o couso ese ten Internet?
- And so this thingy has Internet?
Etymology 2
[edit]Attested as causo in local Medieval Latin documents at least since the 9th century. Probably from Latin capsus.[1]
Noun
[edit]couso m (plural cousos)
- large open box like container used for storing grain
- a trap for wolves consisting of two long converging walls and a central walled pit where wolves were driven for being killed, usually on an annual basis
- (nautical, dated) port
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]couso
References
[edit]- “couso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “couso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “couso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “couso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “caja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]couso m (plural cousi)
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]coūsō
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