caudal
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
- Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle
AdjectiveEdit
caudal (not comparable)
- (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1029641431:
- 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.
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NounEdit
caudal (plural caudals)
- A caudal vertebra.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
caudal (feminine singular caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)
Further readingEdit
- “caudal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). Equivalent to cauda + -al.
AdjectiveEdit
caudal m or f (plural caudais, comparable)
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NounEdit
caudal f (plural caudais)
- caudal vertebra
- Synonym: vértebra caudal
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Spanish caudal, from Latin capitālis (“capital; deadly”). See also the doublets cabedal and capital.
NounEdit
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
AdjectiveEdit
caudal m or f (plural caudais, comparable)
- torrential (flowing heavily)
- Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial
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SpanishEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.
NounEdit
caudal m (plural caudales)
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Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
caudal (plural caudales)