costa

Meaning

coast, shore, coastline, shoreline

Hyphenated as

cos‧ta

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkosta/

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician costa or Catalan costa. Compare also the inherited Spanish doublet cuesta.

Sentences

Otros cuatro tripulantes , murieron en la costa sin llegar a ser tomados como prisioneros .

Four other crew members died on the coast without being taken as prisoners.

La costa forma una playa arenosa de más de un kilómetro de longitud .

The coast forms a sandy beach more than a kilometre long.

Por aquel tiempo , la armada francesa bombardeó algunas localidades italianas de la costa este .

At that time, the French navy bombarded some Italian towns on the east coast.