Latin search results for: cochleare

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. (originally for extracting snails)
  2. spoon
  3. spoonful
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. cochlear, pertaining to the (snail-like) inner ear
  2. of/like snail
  • Age: Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess