vieira
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- scallop
Etymology
Borrowed from Galician vieira derived from Latin conchula (little shell, small mollusk), Venus.
Origin
Latin
Venus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Venus English
- *concla Latin
- Venerivagus Latin
- Venus Latin
- concha Latin
- conchula Latin
- Venus German
- Venere Italian
- concola Italian
- Vénus French
- coquille French
- vénérien French
- concha Spanish, Castilian
- concho Spanish, Castilian
- κόγχη Ancient Greek
- Venus Middle English
- venus Middle English
- Venus Icelandic
- vieira Galician
- ונוס Hebrew (modern)
- *vẽeyra Old Portuguese
- 베누스 Korean
- *wenos Proto-Italic
- vongola Neapolitan