caparazón
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish caparaçón (15th century), from Old Occitan capairon; or alternatively from the ancestor of Mistralian Provençal caparasso (“large cape with hood”) + -ón;[1] both ultimately from Late Latin cappa (“cape”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kapaɾaˈθon/ [ka.pa.ɾaˈθõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kapaɾaˈson/ [ka.pa.ɾaˈsõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ca‧pa‧ra‧zón
Noun edit
caparazón m (plural caparazones)
- carapace (a hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal)
- Synonym: carapacho
- caparison
- shell
- Synonym: concha
References edit
Further reading edit
- “caparazón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014