different between coastal vs coquina

English

Etymology

coast +? -al

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: coas?tal
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??st?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?st?l/
• Rhymes: -??st?l

Adjective

coastal (comparative more coastal, superlative most coastal)

1. (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast, as a coastal town, a coastal breeze

Coordinate terms

• littoral

Derived terms

• coastal waters
• Suffolk Coastal
• tricoastal

Translations

Anagrams

• salacot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coquina (“cockle”), from Latin concha (“bivalve, mollusk; mussel”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kónkh?, “mussel; shell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??ki?n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??kin?/
• Hyphenation: co?qui?na

Noun

coquina (countable and uncountable, plural coquinas)

1. (countable) Any of several small marine clams, of the species Donax variabilis, common in United States coastal waters. [from mid 19th c.]
2. (uncountable, geology) A soft form of limestone made of fragments of shells, sometimes used as a building or road paving material. [from mid 19th c.]

Derived terms

• coquinoidal

Translations

References

Further reading

• coquina (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Donax variabilis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Donax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Alternative forms

• *coc?na (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Late Latin. From coqu?nus (“of cooks”, adjective), from coquus (“cook”, noun), from coqu? (“I cook”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko?k?i?.na/, [k??k?i?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko?kwi.na/, [k??kwi?n?]

Noun

coqu?na f (genitive coqu?nae); first declension

1. cooking; art of cookery
2. kitchen

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (kitchen): cul?na

Related terms

• coqu?n?
• coqu?n?rius

Descendants

References

• coquina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coquina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• coquina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Sardinian

Noun

coquina (Plural: coquinas)

1. Alternative spelling of cochina