custa

From Old Galician-Portuguese custa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), back-formation from custar.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkustɐ]

custa f (plural custas)

1. (usually in the plural) cost; expense
2. (law, in the plural) costs, legal expenses

• a custa de

• custar

custa

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

• “custa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “custa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “custa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “custa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

custa

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

• costa

Inherited from Latin cōnstāre, present active infinitive of cōnstō. Compare the doublet costa (“to cost”), borrowed through Italian, and consta, borrowed directly from Latin.

a custa (third-person singular present custă, past participle custat) 1st conj.

1. (archaic, regional) to live, exist, continue, endure

   Synonyms: trăi, exista, viețui, dura