caudal
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
- Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle
Adjective edit
caudal (not comparable)
- (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
- 1871, Charles Darwin, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 269:
- The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:
- Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.
- (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
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Noun edit
caudal (plural caudals)
- A caudal vertebra.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)
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Further reading edit
- “caudal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). By surface analysis, cauda + -al.
Adjective edit
caudal m or f (plural caudais)
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Noun edit
caudal f (plural caudais)
- caudal vertebra
- Synonym: vértebra caudal
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish caudal, from Latin capitālis (“capital; deadly”). See also the doublets cabedal and capital.
Noun edit
caudal m (plural caudais)
- torrent (heavy stream or flow)
- Synonym: torrente
- (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)
- (figuratively) a great amount of volume of something
- Synonym: monte
Adjective edit
caudal m or f (plural caudais)
- torrential (flowing heavily)
- Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial
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caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)
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singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | caudal | caudală | caudali | caudale | ||
definite | caudalul | caudala | caudalii | caudalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | caudal | caudale | caudali | caudale | ||
definite | caudalului | caudalei | caudalilor | caudalelor |
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.
Noun edit
caudal m (plural caudales)
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Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)
- caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)
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Further reading edit
- “caudal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014