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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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, 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.
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Etymology 2

Noun

concha

  1. Alternative form of kankar.

Etymology 3

Noun

concha (plural conchas)

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

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Interlingua

Noun

concha (plural conchas)

  1. Conch shell.
  2. External ear.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

concha f (genitive conchae); first declension

  1. A bivalve shellfish; a mollusk; a conch
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.346–353:
      Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
      Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
      Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
      Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
      Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
      Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
      Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,
      Hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit canis aestifer arva.
      • Translation by James B. Greenough
        For the rest, whate'er
        The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
        Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
        Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
        Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
        Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
        And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
        Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
        Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
        This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
        When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.
    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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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References

  • “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, 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
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