# concha
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒŋ.kə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑŋ.kə/
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋkə, (General American) -ɑŋkə

#### Noun

concha (plural conchae or (archaic) conchæ)
* Any shell-shaped structure:
** (anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.
** (anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.
* (architecture) An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.

##### Derived terms

* conchal
* inferior concha
* inferior nasal concha
* superior nasal concha

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

concha
* Alternative form of kankar

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

concha (plural conchas)
* Alternative form of concho (“type of ornament”)

### Anagrams

* Chacon, Chanco, NACCHO

## Interlingua
### Noun

concha (plural conchas)
* Conch shell.
* External ear.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* conca

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkon.kʰa/, [ˈkɔŋkʰä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkon.ka/, [ˈkɔŋkä]

### Noun

concha f (genitive conchae); first declension
* A bivalve shellfish; a mollusk; a conch
** A pearl oyster.
*** A pearl.
** The purple-fish.
* A mussel shell.
** A snailshell.
** The Triton's trumpet, in form like a snailshell.
* Objects in the form of a mussel shell:
* A vessel for holding oil, unguents, salt, etc.
* Synonym of cunnus.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* conchula

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: conca
** Neapolitan: conga
** Sicilian: conca
* North Italian:
** Ligurian: conca
** Lombard: conca
** Piedmontese: conca
** Romagnol: cônca
** Venetan: conca
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: concha, couencha
** Old French: conche
*** Middle French: conche
**** Bourbonnais-Berrichon: coinche
**** Bourguignon: conche
**** French: conche
**** Lorrain: condge, conge
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: conca
** Old Occitan: conca
*** Occitan: conca
    Limousin: conche
*** → Basque: gonka
* West Iberian:
** Aragonese: cuenco
** Old Galician-Portuguese: conca, cunca
*** Galician: conca, cunca
*** Portuguese: conca
** Old Spanish: cuenco, cuenca
*** Spanish: cuenco, cuenca
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: kungë
** → English: conch, conk, conque; concha
** → French: conque
** → Polish: koncha

### 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’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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.ʃa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkõ.ʃɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈkõ.t͡ʃɐ/
* Hyphenation: con‧cha

### Noun

concha f (plural conchas)
* seashell
* the shell of any mollusk
* scoop; ladle (specialised spoon for serving)

#### Derived terms

* conchinha

#### Related terms

* conchado
* concharia
* concheado
* conchear
* concheira
* conchoso

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “conch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkont͡ʃa/ [ˈkõnʲ.t͡ʃa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ontʃa
* Syllabification: con‧cha

### Noun

concha f (plural conchas)
* seashell
    Synonym: (Isleño) coquilla
* shell (mollusk)
* (Mexico) a type of sweet bread (one that resembles a shell in design and in decoration)
* (vulgar, Rioplatense, Chile, Peru) pussy, cunt
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

#### Derived terms

* concha de peregrino
* concha de perla
* concha de tu madre
* conchal
* conchasumadre
* conchatumadre
* conchero
* conchesumadre
* conchudo
* la concha de la lora
* reconcha
* servir concha
* tener conchas

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10
* “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