Etymology

cuisse

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Today it means: Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh. Full definition →

French cuisse ← Old French cuisse ← Late Latin coxa
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*koḱs-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kóḱseh₂
  3. Proto-Italic*koksā
  4. Late Latincoxa
  5. Old Frenchcuisse
  6. Frenchcuisse
  7. English todaycuisse

Borrowed from French cuisse (“thigh”), from Old French cuisse, from Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh₂, from *koḱs- (“joint, limb”) + *-eh₂. Compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.

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