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, and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.
Pronunciation edit
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