caudal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
• Homophones: caudle; coddle (cot–caught merger)

Adjective

caudal (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. (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.

   Antonyms: cephalad, cephalic

Derived terms

• acaudal
• anterocaudal
• bicaudal
• caudal artery
• caudal fin
• caudality
• caudalization
• caudal keel
• caudally
• caudalmost
• caudal peduncle
• caudalward
• cephalocaudal
• craniocaudal
• distocaudal
• dorsocaudal
• femorocaudal
• frontocaudal
• laterocaudal
• lumbocaudal
• mediocaudal
• midcaudal
• pericaudal
• posterocaudal
• precaudal
• proximocaudal
• rostrocaudal
• sacrocaudal
• subcaudal
• supracaudal
• tricaudal
• ventrocaudal

Related terms

• queue

Translations

pertaining to the tail

• Arabic: ذَنَبِيّ (ḏanabiyy), ذَيْلِيّ (ḏayliyy)
• Belarusian: хваставы́ (xvastavý), за́дні (zádni), ты́льны (týlʹny)
• Bulgarian: опа́шен (opášen), за́ден (bg) (záden)
• Catalan: caudal
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尾部的 (zh) (wěibù de)

• Czech: ocasní (cs)
• Finnish: kaudaalinen (fi), (mammals) häntä- (fi), (fish, birds) pyrstö- (fi), (general) perä- (fi)
• French: caudal (fr)
• Galician: caudal
• German: kaudal (de), schwanzartig, Schwanz- (de)
• Ido: kaudala (io)
• Irish: eireabaill (ga), eireaballach
• Italian: caudale (it)
• Japanese: 尾側の (びそくの, bisoku no)
• Latin: caudalis
• Manx: arbyllagh
• Persian: دمی (fa) (domi)
• Polish: ogonowy (pl), tylny (pl)
• Portuguese: caudal (pt)
• Romanian: caudal (ro)
• Russian: кауда́льный (ru) (kaudálʹnyj), хвостово́й (ru) (xvostovój), за́дний (ru) (zádnij) (posterior), ты́льный (ru) (týlʹnyj)
• Slovak: chvostový
• Spanish: caudal (es)
• Tagalog: buntutin, pamuntot
• Ukrainian: хвостови́й (xvostovýj), за́дній (zádnij), ти́льний (týlʹnyj)

Noun

caudal (plural caudals)

1. A caudal vertebra.

Translations

caudal vertebra

• Finnish: häntänikama (fi)
• Portuguese: caudal (pt) f

Anagrams

• Dacula, Laduca

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.dal/

• Audio:

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Adjective

caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)

1. (anatomy) caudal

Derived terms

• nageoire caudale
• pédoncule caudal

Further reading

• “caudal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kawˈdaw/ [kaʊ̯ˈdaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kawˈdal/ [kawˈðaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kawˈdal/ [kawˈðaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kawˈda.li/ [kawˈða.li]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cau‧dal

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). By surface analysis, cauda +‎ -al.

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)

1. (zoology) caudal (of or relating to the tail)

Derived terms

• barbatana caudal
• nadadeira caudal
• vértebra caudal

Noun

caudal f (plural caudais)

1. caudal vertebra

   Synonym: vértebra caudal

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish caudal, from Latin capitālis (“capital; deadly”). See also the doublets cabedal and capital.

Noun

caudal m (plural caudais)

1. torrent (heavy stream or flow)

   Synonym: torrente

2. (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)

   Synonyms: fluxo, vazão

3. (figuratively) a great amount of volume of something

   Synonym: monte

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)

1. torrential (flowing heavily)

   Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial

Related terms

• cabeça
• cabedal
• caudalosidade
• caudaloso

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caudale.

Adjective

caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)

1. caudal

Declension

Declension of caudal

		singular				plural
		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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kauˈdal/ [kau̯ˈð̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cau‧dal

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.

Noun

caudal m (plural caudales)

1. flow
2. volume
3. funds

Derived terms

• caja de caudales
• caudaloso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caudālis.

Adjective

caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)

1. caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)

Derived terms

• aleta caudal
• caudalmente

Further reading

• “caudal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10