caracol
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧col
Noun
[edit]caracol (plural caracols)
- Alternative spelling of caracole
Verb
[edit]caracol (third-person singular simple present caracols, present participle caracolling, simple past and past participle caracolled)
- Alternative spelling of caracole
Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]caracol m (plural caracoles)
- snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- Synonym: cascoxu
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracol m (plural caracois)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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, Catalan caragol and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]caracol m (plural caracóis)
- snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- curl (a lock of curly hair)
- (anatomy) cochlea (the complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear)
- Synonym: cóclea
Usage notes
[edit]In Brazil, this term usually refers to terrestrial snails, while caramujo refers to aquatic ones.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- caracol on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]caracol m (plural caracoles)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: caracollo
Further reading
[edit]- “caracol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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