Noun: chiocciola
Gender: f
Hyphenation: chiòc‧cio‧la
| Singular f | chiocciola |
| Plural f | chiocciole |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like chiocciola
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”). Compare with Sardinian còciola and Sicilian còzzula. See: Latin Nouns '
cochlea', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κοχλίας'.
Verbs referencing "chiocciola"
Slovak Nouns
korčuľa.
Translations