different between barracuda vs snorkel

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1670s, from Latin American Spanish barracuda, perhaps from a Cariban word.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæ???ku?d?/
• Rhymes: -u?d?

Noun

barracuda (plural barracuda or barracudas)

1. Any large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena that have elongated bodies, a projecting lower jaw, displaying prominent fang-shaped teeth, and are aggressive predators.
2. (figuratively) One who uses harsh or predatory means to compete.

Translations

See also

• barracouta

Further reading

• barracuda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sphyraena on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• barracuda at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barracuda. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.ra??ky.da?/
• Hyphenation: bar?ra?cu?da

Noun

barracuda f (plural barracuda's)

1. barracuda, fish of the genus Sphyraena

   Synonym: zeesnoek

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?a.ky.da/
• IPA^(key): /ba.?a.ku.da/

Noun

barracuda m (plural barracudas)

1. barracuda

Italian

Etymology

From Spanish barracuda.

Noun

barracuda m (invariable)

1. barracuda

Further reading

• barracuda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish barracuda.

Noun

barracuda f (plural barracudas)

1. barracuda (large marine fish of the genus Sphyraena)

Further reading

• “barracuda” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps from a Cariban term. According to Watkins, from Valencian/Catalan barracó (“snaggletooth”); see barraca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bara?kuda/, [ba.ra?ku.ð?a]

Noun

barracuda f (plural barracudas)

1. (zoology) barracuda

   Synonym: picuda

Descendants

Further reading

• “barracuda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• “barracuda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schnorchel (“(submarine) snorkel”), related to schnarchen (“to snore”). Thus named because of the submarine snorkel's functional similarity to a nose and because of its noise when in use. The anglicized spelling was first recorded in 1945. See, for example, Mark S. Watson, "New Epoch in Sea War", The Baltimore Sun, December 31, 1945, p. 8: "The Germans' earlier quest of the last important objective, it will be remembered, had produced the Snorkel, a long exhaust tube whose vent reached above water and permitted a submerged vessel to discharge its Diesel fumes in open air."

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)k?l

Noun

snorkel (plural snorkels)

1. A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.
2. A retractable tube fitted in diesel-engine submarines to allow sufficient ventilation that the engines may be used at periscope depth.

   Synonym: snort

Translations

Verb

snorkel (third-person singular simple present snorkels, present participle (UK) snorkelling or (US) snorkeling, simple past and past participle (UK) snorkelled or (US) snorkeled)

1. To use a snorkel.

Derived terms

• snorkeler/snorkeller

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English snorkel, from German Schnorchel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?r.k?l/

Noun

snorkel (plural snorkels)

1. A snorkel (swimming gear, breathing tube).

Verb

snorkel (present snorkel, present participle snorkelende, past participle gesnorkel)

1. to snorkel (to dive using a breathing tube)

Dutch

Etymology

First attested in the 1949. Borrowing from English snorkel, from German Schnorchel. The German word was coined in the 1940s to describe the Dutch snuiver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?r.k?l/
• Hyphenation: snor?kel

Noun

snorkel m (plural snorkels, diminutive snorkeltje n)

1. snorkel (swimming gear, breathing tube)
2. submarine snorkel, snort
   • 1949 March 10, "De macht op zee", Amigoe di Curaçao, vol. 65, issue 5670, page 1.

   Synonym: snuiver

Derived terms

• snorkelen

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• esnórquel (rare)

Noun

snorkel m (plural snorkels)

1. snorkel (hollow tube used for breathing underwater)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?no?kel/, [ez?no?.kel]

Noun

snorkel m (plural snorkels or snorkel)

1. snorkel
2. snorkelling