Noun: coice
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | coice |
| Plural m | coices |
Sample Sentences
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What are the probabilities of x cavalrymen in a year receiving a lethal kick from a horse? [2011, chapter 36, in Jorge Nuno Silva, transl., 50 Ideias de Matemática que precisa mesmo de saber, Alfragide: Dom Quixote, translation of 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know by Tony Crilly, →ISBN, page 136:]
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Sr. Otacílio Lopes, redator-chefe de um matutino de Salvador, recebeu um coice no peito, desferido por um dos capangas de Vargas, […] (Mr. Otacílio Lopes, editor-in-chief of a morning paper in Salvador, was kicked in the chest by one of Vargas’s lackeys, […]) [1966, Affonso Henriques, Ascensão e queda de Getúlio Vargas, volume 3, Rio de Janeiro: Distribuidora Record, page 303:]
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His hands jumped with the recoil, but he saw the red mist, spray of blood in the air;[…] (The hands jumped with the recoil, but he sighted a red mist, a squirt of blood in the air; […]) [2013, Magda Lopes, transl., Mazer Runne: Ordem de Extermínio, São Paulo: Vergara & Riba Editoras, translation of The Kill Order by James Dashner, page 27:]
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Lacerda reclamou que, em lugar de resposta ao seu estudo de 54 páginas, recebera um coice. (Lacerda complained that, instead of a response to his 54 page study, he was met with a snap.) [2000, John W. F. Dulles, Carlos Lacerda: a vida de um lutador, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Nova Fronteira, page 353:]
Nouns inflected like coice
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese couce m (compare Galician couce m), from Latin calcem f (“heel”). Cognate with Spanish coz f. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
couce', Old Portuguese Nouns '
couce', Galician Nouns '
couce', Latin Nouns '
calx', Spanish Nouns '
coz'.
Verbs referencing "coice"
Galician Nouns
couce.
Translations