caulis
English
Etymology 1
From Latin caulis. Doublet of cole.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɔːlɪs
Noun
caulis (plural caules)
- (architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
- (botany) The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state.
Translations
a leafy herbaceous stem
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Noun
caulis
- plural of cauli
Anagrams
- aulics, clusia, sicula
Latin
Alternative forms
- cōlis
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.lis/, [ˈkäu̯lʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.lis/, [ˈkäːu̯lis]
Noun
caulīs
- dative/ablative plural of caulae
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-l-i-. Cognate with Sanskrit कुल्या (kulyā), Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”) and Latvian kauls (“bone”).[1]
Alternative forms
- cōlis
- coles
Noun
caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension
- stalk, stem
- stem of a cabbage
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caulis | caulēs |
Genitive | caulis | caulium |
Dative | caulī | caulibus |
Accusative | caulem | caulēs caulīs |
Ablative | caule | caulibus |
Vocative | caulis | caulēs |
Derived terms
- cauliculus
- cauliculatus
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- caul
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cavolo
- Sicilian: cavulu
- Padanian:
- Emilian: chèvol, cavol, caul
- Ligurian: cöo, cô, cúaro
- Lombard: caul, cavol
- Piedmontese: còl, caure
- Romagnol: chèvol, chevle
- Venetian: càvol, càorlo, càoło
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: chous
- French: chou
- Old French: chous
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Occitan: caul
- Catalan: col
- Occitan: caul ⇒ caulet
- Nord-Occitan: chaul
- Old Occitan: caul
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician / Old Portuguese: col
- Galician: col
- Old Portuguese: couve
- Galician: couve, couva
- Portuguese: couve
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: col
- Old Galician / Old Portuguese: col
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: càule
- Borrowings
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kawl (see there for further descendants)
- → English: caulis (learned)
- → Catalan: caule (semi-learned)
- → Italian: caule (semi-learned)
- → Macedonian: кељ (kelj)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kauli (see there for further descendants)
- → Portuguese: caule (semi-learned)
References
- “caulis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caulis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caulis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN