caracol

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧col

Noun

caracol (plural caracols)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

Verb

caracol (third-person singular simple present caracols, present participle caracolling, simple past and past participle caracolled)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

Anagrams

• Calarco, Larocca

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Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with cuyar (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Noun

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)

   Synonym: cascoxu

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Galician

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with culler (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈkɔl/

Noun

caracol m (plural caracois)

1. snail

   Synonyms: cornacho, cornacha, sesillo, cosco

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Portuguese

caracol

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Confer with colher (“spoon”). Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman substrate origin.

Cognate with Asturian caracol, Galician caracol, Spanish caracol, and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ka.ɾaˈkɔw/, [ka.ɾaˈkɔʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /kɐ.ɾɐˈkɔl/, [kɐ.ɾɐˈkɔɫ]

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧col
• Rhymes: -ɔl, -ɔw

Noun

caracol m (plural caracóis)

1. snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
2. curl (a lock of curly hair)
3. (anatomy) cochlea (the complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear)

   Synonym: cóclea

Related terms

• caramujo, lesma, escargô, molusco, gastrópode
• encaracolar, encaracolado

Further reading

• caracol on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleare, from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also cuchara. Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman substrate origin.

Cognate with Portuguese caracol, Galician caracol, Asturian caracol, and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈkol/, [ka.ɾaˈkol]

• Audio (Spain)

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Noun

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail
2. (anatomy) cochlea

Derived terms

• escalera de caracol

Descendants

• → Italian: caracollo

Further reading

• “caracol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014