coxinus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cossīnus, cussīnus, coisīnus, coissīnus === Etymology === From coxa (“thigh”) +‎ -īnus, possibly under the influence of pulvīnus (“cushion, pillow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔkˈsiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kokˈsiː.nus] === Noun === coxīnus m (genitive coxīnī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin) cushion, pillow Synonyms: pulvīnus, cervīcal, culcita ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Old Leonese: Asturian: coxín (“cushion”) Old Occitan: Catalan: coixí Old French: coissin, coussin, cuissin, cussin, quissin (Anglo-Norman)Middle French: coissinFrench: coussin (see there for further descendants)Norman: couossiWalloon: cossén→ Italian: cuscino→ Middle English: quysshynEnglish: cushion (see there for further descendants)Middle Scots: cusching, cussing, cuscheonScots: cushin→ Sicilian: cuscinu→ Venetan: cusin Old Galician-Portuguese: Galician: coxín Old Spanish: coxín Spanish: cojín → Proto-West Germanic: *kussīn (see there for further descendants) === References === "coxinus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)