coxendix

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Italic *koksednī-k-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-, whence Latin coxa (“hip”).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /kokˈsen.diːks/, [kɔkˈs̠ɛn̪d̪iːks̠]

  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kokˈsen.diks/, [kokˈsɛn̪d̪iks]
  • Ouside very fragmented instances, the word is attested in poetry once in Plautus, requiring a long -ī- (see quotation). Some dictionaries (e.g. Lewis & Short and the Gaffiot 2016) may be wrong in reporting this word with short -i-.

Noun

coxendīx f (genitive coxendīcis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) hip, hipbone
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 1157-1159, (metre: anapaestic system):
      PHIL. Tāctus sum vehementer viscō;
      cor stimulō foditur. NIC. Pol tibi mul-
      tō aequius est coxendīcem.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative coxendīx coxendīcēs
Genitive coxendīcis coxendīcum
Dative coxendīcī coxendīcibus
Accusative coxendīcem coxendīcēs
Ablative coxendīce coxendīcibus
Vocative coxendīx coxendīcēs

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “coxa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
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