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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also chiocciola.
Pronunciation
Noun
coclea f (plural coclee)
- (anatomy) cochlea
- Archimedes screw
- Synonym: vite di Archimede
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
coclea f (genitive cocleae); first declension
- Alternative form of cochlea (“a snail, spiral”).
Inflection
First-declension noun.
References
- “coclea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coclea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coclea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “coclea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “coclea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin