conch
English
/kɒntʃ/
noun
Definitions
- A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- The shell of this sea animal.
- A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin concha (mussel, vessel, bivalve, oyster, trumpet, mollusk).
Origin
Latin
concha
Gloss
mussel, vessel, bivalve, oyster, trumpet, mollusk
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
器
Emoji
🎺
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- concha English
- concher English
- conchiform English
- conchite English
- conchological English
- conchologist English
- conchologize English
- conchology English
- conchometry English
- deuteroconch English
- macroconch English
- microconch English
- protoconch English
- teleoconch English
- concha Latin
- concheus Latin
- conchula Latin
- conca Italian
- conche French
- conque French
- coquina Spanish, Castilian
- cuenca Spanish, Castilian
- κόγχη Ancient Greek
- शङ्ख Sanskrit
- conca Catalan, Valencian
- शंख Hindi
- sangkakala Indonesian
- cunca Old Portuguese
- *śankʰás Proto-Indo-Aryan