caracola
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: caracolas, caracolât
Verb
caracola
- third-person singular past historic of caracoler
Spanish
Etymology
From caracol (“snail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾaˈkola/ [ka.ɾaˈko.la]
- Rhymes: -ola
- Syllabification: ca‧ra‧co‧la
Noun
caracola f (plural caracolas)
- shell of a marine snail (the kind that can be blown as a musical instrument)
- a bun in the shape of a snail shell
Further reading
- “caracola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014