concha

Borrowed from Late Latin concha (“a mussel shell”). Doublet of conch.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋ.kə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋ.kə/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋkə, (General American) -ɑŋkə

concha (plural conchae or (archaic) conchæ)

1. Any shell-shaped structure:
   • 2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2020:

     In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.

   1. (anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.
   2. (anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.
2. (architecture) An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.

• “concha”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “concha”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

concha

1. Alternative form of kankar.

concha (plural conchas)

1. Alternative form of concho (“type of ornament”).

• Chacon, Chanco, NACCHO

concha (plural conchas)

1. Conch shell.
2. External ear.

• conca

From Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “a mussel or cockle; a shell-like cavity”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.kʰa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.ka]

concha f (genitive conchae); first declension

1. A bivalve shellfish; a mollusk; a conch
   1. A pearl oyster.
      1. A pearl.
   2. The purple-fish.
2. A mussel shell.
   1. A snailshell.
   2. The Triton's trumpet, in form like a snailshell.
3. Objects in the form of a mussel shell:
4. A vessel for holding oil, unguents, salt, etc.
5. synonym of cunnus

First-declension noun.

• conchula

• “concha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “concha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "concha", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “concha”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “concha”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Vulgar Latin *concla, from Latin conchula, diminutive of concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē), from Proto-Indo-European *kongʰo-^[1]

• Hyphenation: con‧cha

concha f (plural conchas)

1. seashell
2. the shell of any mollusk
3. scoop; ladle (specialised spoon for serving)

• “concha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Inherited from Latin conchula, diminutive of concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “mussel”). Cognate with cuenca (“basin, socket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkont͡ʃa/ [ˈkõnʲ.t͡ʃa]

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• Rhymes: -ontʃa
• Syllabification: con‧cha

concha f (plural conchas)

1. seashell

   Synonym: (Isleño) coquilla

2. shell (mollusk)
3. (Mexico) a type of sweet bread (one that resembles a shell in design and in decoration)
4. (vulgar, Rioplatense, Chile, Peru) pussy, cunt

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

• “concha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “concha”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010