caracola

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: caracolas, caracolât

Verb

caracola

1. 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)

1. shell of a marine snail (the kind that can be blown as a musical instrument)
2. a bun in the shape of a snail shell

Further reading

• “caracola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10