coxus

Perhaps from coxa (“hip”). Attested in the writings of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas and various late glosses.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔk.sus]

coxus (feminine coxa, neuter coxum); first/second-declension adjective (rare)

1. lame

   Synonym: claudus

First/second-declension adjective.

• "coxus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)