conchula

From concha (“mollusk”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.kʰʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.ku.la]

conchula f (genitive conchulae); first declension

1. diminutive of concha (“mollusk, mussel, oyster”)

First-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: gongola
  • Neapolitan: vòngola
    • → Italian: vongola
  • Sicilian: crocchia
• West Iberian:
  • Asturian: cónxara
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: concha
    • Galician: cuncha
    • Portuguese: concha
  • Spanish: concha, concho
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: concola (semi-learned)

• “conchula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conchula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.