codo

From Spanish codo (“elbow, Spanish cubit”), from Old Spanish cobdo, from Latin cubitus, from cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”). Doublet of cubit and covado. Compare codo.

codo (plural codos)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 41.6 cm.

• Spanish cubit, cubit (Spanish contexts)

• dedo (¹⁄₂₄ codo), pulgada (¹⁄₁₈ codo), coto (¹⁄₄ codo), sesma (¹⁄₃ codo), palmo (¹⁄₂ codo), pie (²⁄₃ codo), vara (2 codos)

codo (ORB)

1. Alternative spelling of côdo (“elbow”)

• coude in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodo/ [ˈko.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: co‧do

Inherited from Old Spanish cobdo (“Spanish cubit”), from Latin cubitus, from cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cúbito, a later borrowed form. Cognate with Portuguese coto and côvado, Galician cóbado, Catalan colze and colzo, French coude, Romanian cot, English cubit. Compare coto.

codo m (plural codos)

1. elbow
2. cubit (an informal unit of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand)
3. (historical) codo, Spanish cubit (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm)

• (Spanish unit of length): dedo (¹⁄₂₄ codo), pulgada (¹⁄₁₈ codo), coto (¹⁄₄ codo), sesma (¹⁄₃ codo), palmo (¹⁄₂ codo), pie (²⁄₃ codo), vara (2 codos)

From codicia or codicioso, influenced by codo (“elbow”), perhaps with an initially euphemistic intention.

codo (feminine coda, masculine plural codos, feminine plural codas)

1. (colloquial, Central America, Mexico, Panama) selfish, avaricious, stingy

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