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cófa

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
cófa, l. cofa.
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
Add: ; cofu (-e), an; f. (v. bed-cofe.)
a chamber, closet
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  • Cofa pistrimum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 30: 68, 15:

    pistrinum,

    i.
      288, 62.
  • Lytel cofa

    pistrilla,

    63.
  • On cofan

    in conclavi,

    ii.
      46, 14.
  • Gá in þíne cofan (

    cubiculum

    ),
      Mt. R. 6, 6.
  • In cofum

    in penetralibus,

      Mt. L. R. 24, 26.
a cave, den
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  • Cofa

    spelunca,

      Jn. L. R. 11, 38.
  • Cofa ðeáfana

    speluncam latronum,

      Mt. L. 21, 13: Mk. L. R. 11, 17: Lk. L. R. 19, 46.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. cove. Icel. kofi a cell, hut.]
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v. brýd-cofa.
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