Significatio vocis costa | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a rib
   declension-1, feminine
2. a side, a wall
   declension-1, feminine
3. Equivalent to 'rib': Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“costae navium”

the sides of ships

“costae aheni”

the sides of a cauldron

“tergora diripere costis”

to tear off the skin

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