codo

elbow; cubit (an informal unit of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand); codo, Spanish cubit (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm)

“Codo, an elbow, a cubite, Cubitus.” — Codo, an elbow, a cubit, Cubitus.

Inherited from Old Spanish cobdo, from Latin cubitus (“elbow, cubit”), perfect passive participle of cubō (“to lie down”). Doublet of cúbito (“ulna”), a later borrowed form. Cognate with Portuguese coto and côvado, Galician cóbado, Catalan colze and colzo, French coude, Romanian cot, and English cubit. Compare coto.

selfish, avaricious, stingy

From codicia or codicioso, influenced by codo (“elbow”), perhaps with an initially euphemistic intention.