caracol
English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧col
Noun
caracol (plural caracols)
- Alternative spelling of caracole
Verb
caracol (third-person singular simple present caracols, present participle caracolling, simple past and past participle caracolled)
- Alternative spelling of caracole
Anagrams
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)
- 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
Noun
caracol m (plural caracois)
Portuguese
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, Catalan caragol and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
In Brazil, this term usually refers to terrestrial snails, while caramujo refers to aquatic ones.
Related terms
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
Noun
caracol m (plural caracoles)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Italian: caracollo
Further reading
- “caracol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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