costar

  1. to cost
  2. to find something very difficult, to have a hard time with something

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
cos‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kosˈtaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish costar, from Latin cōnstāre; the o-ue alternation may have been influenced by the unrelated noun cuesta. Doublet of constar, a borrowing.

be worth

see cuesta caro

cost dear

cost dearly

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