caudal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
• Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle

Adjective

caudal (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
   • (Can we date this quote by Darwin and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 3:

     Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

Derived terms

• acaudal
• bicaudal
• caudal artery
• caudal fin
• caudality
• caudal keel
• caudally
• caudalmost
• caudal peduncle
• caudalward
• cephalocaudal
• craniocaudal
• dorsocaudal
• laterocaudal
• mediocaudal
• precaudal
• rostrocaudal
• sacrocaudal
• subcaudal
• supracaudal
• ventrocaudal

 

Related terms

• queue

Translations

pertaining to the tail

• Catalan: caudal
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尾部的 (zh) (wěibù de)

• Finnish: kaudaalinen (fi), (mammals) häntä- (fi), (fish, birds) pyrstö- (fi), (general) perä- (fi)
• French: caudal (fr)
• Galician: caudal
• German: kaudal (de), schwanzartig
• 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)
• Portuguese: caudal (pt)
• Romanian: caudal (ro)
• Russian: кауда́льный (ru) (kaudálʹnyj), хвостово́й (ru) (xvostovój), за́дний (ru) (zádnij) (posterior)
• Spanish: caudal (es)
• Tagalog: buntutin, pamuntot

Noun

caudal (plural caudals)

1. A caudal vertebra.

Translations

caudal vertebra

• Finnish: häntänikama (fi)

• Portuguese: caudal (pt) f

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.dal/

Adjective

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

1. (anatomy) caudal

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaw.ˈdaw/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). Equivalent to cauda +‎ -al.

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais, comparable)

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, comparable)

1. torrential (flowing heavily)

   Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial

Related terms

• cabeça
• cabedal
• caudalosidade
• caudaloso

 

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kauˈðal/

Etymology 1

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

• aleta caudal
• caja de caudales
• caudaloso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caudālis.

Adjective

caudal (plural caudales)

1. caudal