Translingual

Coix lacrima-jobi

Proper noun

Coix f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – Job's tears.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Panicoideae - family; Andropogoneae or Sacchareae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Coix lacryma-jobi - type species; Coix aquatica, Coix gasteenii, Coix puellarum - other species

English

Noun

coix ‎(uncountable)

1. an East Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, sometimes harvested as a cereal.

Anagrams

• oxic

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōxus ‎(“lame”), from Latin coxa. Compare Spanish cojo, Portuguese coxo, Aragonese coixo.

Adjective

coix m ‎(feminine coixa, masculine plural coixos, feminine plural coixes)

1. lame
2. wobbly (due to one leg being shorter)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόϊξ ‎(kóïx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.iks/, [ˈkɔ.ɪks]

Noun

coix f ‎(genitive coicis); third declension

1. a kind of Ethiopian palm

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Coix

References

• coix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.