caracol – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: caracol
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	caracol
Plural m	caracóis

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like caracol

besteirol, tornassol, bisfenol, aminoimidazol, girassol, difenol, anfenicol, tornasol, girasol, carcanhol, rabichol, cachecol, caracol, aminopropanol, beibidol, alilfenol, guarda-sol, arabitol, alquilfenol, estol, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. 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.
2. Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish caracol, Catalan and Occitan caragol (from earlier cagaròl). See: Latin Nouns 'cochlea', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κοχλίας'.

Verbs referencing "caracol"

Spanish Nouns caracol.

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