costura

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kosˈtu.ɾa]

costura f (plural costures)

1. sewing, needlework
2. stitch (a single pass of a needle in sewing)

• cosir

• “costura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “costura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “costura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “costura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• custura

From Old Galician-Portuguese costura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa̝/

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. stitches, stitching
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     a pẽna do mãto mays preçada et mays marauillosa era que outra que nũca home uisse, ca ela era en ssy enteyra, que en ela toda nõ auj́a peça nẽ costura.

     the mantle's hide was more precious and marvelous than any other that anyone had ever seen, because it was in itself whole, having no pieces or stiches

3. junction, joint in between boards
4. scar
5. (nautical, fishing) splice

• costureira
• costureiro

• coser

• “costura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “costur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “custur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “costura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “costura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “costura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cos‧tu‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

costura f (plural costuras)

1. sewing
2. stitches

• costurar
• costureira

• coser

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

costura

1. inflection of costurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “costura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnsutūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from cōnsuō.

• IPA^(key): /kosˈtuɾa/ [kosˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cos‧tu‧ra

costura f (plural costuras)

1. needlework, sewing
2. (in clothing or machinery) seam, stitches
3. (nautical) seam
4. splice

• “costura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014