trochus

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).

trochus (plural trochuses or trochi)

1. (malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.

• topshell

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• crouths, tocrush

From Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).

trochus m (genitive trochī); second declension

1. iron hoop

Second declension.

• Translingual: Trochus

• trochus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trochus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trochus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• trochus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• trochus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trochus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• trochus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin