caparazón
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish caparaçón (15th century), from Old Occitan capairon; or alternatively from the ancestor of Mistralian Provençal caparasso (“large cape with hood”) + -ón;[1] both ultimately from Late Latin cappa (“cape”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kapaɾaˈθon/ [ka.pa.ɾaˈθõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kapaɾaˈson/ [ka.pa.ɾaˈsõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ca‧pa‧ra‧zón
Noun[edit]
caparazón m (plural caparazones)
- carapace (a hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal)
- Synonym: carapacho
- caparison
- shell
- Synonym: concha
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “caparazón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Occitan
- Spanish terms derived from Provençal
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ón
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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