coçar

See also: cocar

Old Galician-Portuguese

From Vulgar Latin *coctiāre, *cocicāre, from Latin coquere.

coçar

to scratch
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 225 (facsimile):
  
  el a coçar fillouſſe non catou al ſe ñ qñdo / lle ſayu per ſo a unlla aquel poçon tã lixoſo.
  he began scratching and didn’t see any other thing when under his nail went out that dirty venom.

From Old Galician-Portuguese coçar (“to scratch”), from Vulgar Latin *coctiāre, *cocicāre, from Latin coquere.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈsa(ʁ)/ [koˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈsa(ʁ)/ [koˈsa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈsa(ɻ)/

coçar (first-person singular present coço, first-person singular preterite cocei, past participle coçado)

to scratch (to rub a surface with a sharp object)
Synonyms: arranhar, ranhar, raspar, rascar
to itch

Conjugation of coçar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

¹Brazil.
²Portugal.

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