caudal
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
- Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle
Adjective
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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- (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
- 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
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Noun
caudal (plural caudals)
- A caudal vertebra.
Translations
caudal vertebra
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Anagrams
- Dacula, Laduca
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.dal/
Audio (file)
Adjective
caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)
- (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]
- 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)
- (zoology) caudal (of or relating to the tail)
Derived terms
- barbatana caudal
- nadadeira caudal
- vértebra caudal
Noun
caudal f (plural caudais)
- 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)
- torrent (heavy stream or flow)
- Synonym: torrente
- (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)
- Synonyms: fluxo, vazão
- (figuratively) a great amount of volume of something
- Synonym: monte
Adjective
caudal m or f (plural caudais)
- torrential (flowing heavily)
- Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial
Related terms
- cabeça
- cabedal
- caudalosidade
- caudaloso
Romanian
Etymology
From French caudale.
Adjective
caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)
- 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
From Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.
Noun
caudal m (plural caudales)
- flow
- volume
- funds
Derived terms
- caja de caudales
- caudaloso
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin caudālis.
Adjective
caudal (plural caudales)
- 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014