/ˈkɒ.stə/, /ˈkɑ.stə/
OriginUnadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.
- Synonym of rib.
- A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
- The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
- A surname from the Romance languages.
“Although Costa retained his contacts with the royal family, Gye was able to develop his own close relationship with the operaphile Prince of Wales, for whose mistress Pauline Lucca he occasionally res”
- A surname from Italian.
“Coccinelle, the flamboyant star of a female-impersonation revue at the Carrousel Club in Paris, recounted the saga of her physical transformation to Italiaan journalist Mario Costa.”
- A surname from Galician.
- A surname from French.
- A surname from Occitan.
- A surname from Spanish.
- A Catalonian surname from Catalan.
- A surname from Portuguese.
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