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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
caudal (not comparable)
- (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
1871, Charles Darwin, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. , volume I, London: John Murray, , →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 269:The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.
- (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
Translations
pertaining to the tail
- Arabic: ذَنَبِيّ (ḏanabiyy), ذَيْلِيّ (ḏayliyy)
- Belarusian: хваставы́ (xvastavý), за́дні (zádni), ты́льны (týlʹny)
- Bulgarian: опа́шен (opášen), за́ден (bg) (záden)
- Catalan: caudal
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 尾部的 (zh) (wěibù de)
- Czech: ocasní (cs)
- Finnish: kaudaalinen (fi), (mammals) häntä- (fi), (fish, birds) pyrstö- (fi), (general) perä- (fi)
- French: caudal (fr)
- Galician: caudal
- German: kaudal (de), schwanzartig, Schwanz- (de)
- 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)
- Polish: ogonowy (pl), tylny (pl)
- Portuguese: caudal (pt)
- Romanian: caudal (ro)
- Russian: кауда́льный (ru) (kaudálʹnyj), хвостово́й (ru) (xvostovój), за́дний (ru) (zádnij) (posterior), ты́льный (ru) (týlʹnyj)
- Slovak: chvostový
- Spanish: caudal (es)
- Tagalog: buntutin, pamuntot
- Ukrainian: хвостови́й (xvostovýj), за́дній (zádnij), ти́льний (týlʹnyj)
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Noun
caudal (plural caudals)
- A caudal vertebra.
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.
Pronunciation
Adjective
caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)
- (anatomy) caudal
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Further reading
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- 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
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
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French caudale.
Adjective
caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)
- caudal
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kauˈdal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: cau‧dal
Etymology 1
Inherited 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
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin caudālis.
Adjective
caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)
- caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)
Derived terms
Further reading