caracol

• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧col

caracol (plural caracols)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

caracol (third-person singular simple present caracols, present participle caracolling, simple past and past participle caracolled)

1. Alternative spelling of caracole

• Larocca

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

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)

• cascoxu

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

caracol m (plural caracois)

1. snail

1. cornacho, cornacha, sesillo, cosco

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ɾa.ˈkɔw/

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

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

• caracol on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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 Indo-European origin.

caracol m (plural caracoles)

1. snail
2. (anatomy) cochlea