costa

Other forms of costa

plural

costae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about costa

What does costa mean?

costa means "a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in costa?

costa has 2 syllables: co-sta. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɔstɑ/.

What is another word for costa?

Close synonyms include rib. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is costa a common word?

costa is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.