cadell
Catalan
FWOTD – 3 November 2022
Etymology
From Latin catellus. Compare Occitan cadèl and cadèu, French chiot (Old French chael), Italian catello, Romanian cățel.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /kəˈdeʎ/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kaˈdeʎ/
Noun
cadell m (plural cadells)
- cub (young of various animals)
- 2016 October 1, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico:
- L'home explica en el vídeo que fent senderisme per la muntanya es va trobar una ossa i dos cadells.
- The man explains in the video that while hiking in the mountain, he found a bear and her two cubs.
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- ratchet, catch
- tonguing plane
- European mole cricket
- (in the plural) water lily
- Synonyms: nimfea, nenúfar
- (in the plural) spiny cocklebur (Xanthium spinosum)
- Synonym: espina-xoca
- (historical) A member of one of the two factions into which Catalan nobility were divided during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were opposed by the nyerros.
- Synonym: robuster
Derived terms
- encadellar
Further reading
- “cadell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cadell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.