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

Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Compare 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

Galician

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleār, Latin cochlea (“snail”), from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). Compare 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

Portuguese

caracol

Outro caracol

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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

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

Usage notes

In Brazil, this term usually refers to terrestrial snails, while caramujo refers to aquatic ones.

Related terms

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

Further reading

• caracol on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧col

Noun

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail
2. (anatomy) cochlea

   Synonym: cóclea

Derived terms

• caracol de Borgoña
• escalera de caracol

 

Descendants

• → Italian: caracollo

Further reading

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