codo

Meaning

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

elbow

knee

elbow joint

see codo a codo

see codo con codo

see dar con el codo a

bent tube

articulatio cubiti

cubital joint

human elbow

elbow pipe

pipe bend

pipe elbow

tube bend

muñeca del brazo

tubo acodado

persona tacaña

pichirre

curbatura

curva de tubo

Frequency

Hyphenated as

co‧do

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkodo/

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.