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coa

Pronunciation: [ˈko.a]

“coa” is a Latin word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. lustful woman, prostitute

Etymology

After a story perhaps pertaining to Clodia Metelli cited in Quintillian, perhaps as a distortion of a form of coeō, or after the luxurious silk from Cos, deriving from the cocoon of the Coan moth, or both.

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