cosse

See also: cossé and côsse

French

Etymology

Probably from Late Latin *coccia, from Latin cochlea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔs

Noun

cosse f (plural cosses)

1. pod (seed case)

Verb

cosse

1. inflection of cosser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Verb

cosse

1. third-person singular past historic of cuocere

Anagrams

• cesso, cessò, sceso

Latin

Noun

cosse

1. vocative singular of cossus

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

cosse (imperative coss, present tense cosser, passive cosses, simple past and past participle cossa or cosset, present participle cossende)

1. (informal) to cosplay as something

Synonyms

• cosplaye

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

cosse (present tense cossar, past tense cossa, past participle cossa, passive infinitive cossast, present participle cossande, imperative cosse/coss)

1. Alternative form of cossa

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cose

Etymology

Univerbation of co (“up to, until”) +‎ se (“this”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkosʲe]

Adverb

cosse

1. hitherto, up to now

Quotations

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^d16

  Combad notire rod·scríbad cosse.

  It would have been a secretary who had written it until now.

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91^b10

  Aní as·berinn cosse, is ed as·bǽr beus .i. derchoíniud du remcaisin Dǽ dinni ón.

  What I used to say up to now, I will say still, namely that is the despair of us for a providence of God.

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 55^b5

  ar ní ar accuis dechoir aní as·rubartmmar cose

  for it is not for the sake of distinction [that we have said] what we have said up to now