different between carapace vs carapacelike

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Portuguese carapaça (“carapace, shell”), of uncertain origin. Compare Catalan carabassa. Possibly related to Ancient Greek ??????? (kárabos, “beetle”). Doublet of calipash. See also scarab, scorpion and crab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.??pe?s/, /?kæ.???pe?s/

Noun

carapace (plural carapaces)

1. A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
2. in figurative use
   • 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish” in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4

     This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.

Related terms

• carapaced
• carapaceous
• carapacial

Translations

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese carapaça (“carapace, shell”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

carapace f (plural carapaces)

1. shell

Descendants

• ? English: carapace
• ? English: calipash
• ? Italian: carapace

Further reading

• “carapace” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Portuguese carapaça (“carapace, shell”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

carapace m (plural carapaci)

1. carapace

English

Etymology

carapace +? -like

Adjective

carapacelike (comparative more carapacelike, superlative most carapacelike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a carapace.