coclea

Borrowed from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also chiocciola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.kle.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔklea
• Hyphenation: cò‧cle‧a

coclea f (plural coclee)

1. (anatomy) cochlea
2. Archimedes screw

   Synonym: vite di Archimede

• cocleare

• Colace, eccola

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.kɫe.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.kle.a]

coclea f (genitive cocleae); first declension

1. alternative form of cochlea (“a snail, spiral”)

First-declension noun.

• “coclea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coclea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coclea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “coclea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “coclea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin