caudal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːdəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
• Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudle

Adjective

caudal (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. (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

Related terms

• queue

Translations

Noun

caudal (plural caudals)

1. A caudal vertebra.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dacula, Laduca

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.dal/

• Audio

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Adjective

caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)

1. (anatomy) caudal

Derived terms

Further reading

• “caudal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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)

1. (zoology) caudal (of or relating to the tail)

Derived terms

Noun

caudal f (plural caudais)

1. 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)

1. torrent (heavy stream or flow)

   Synonym: torrente

2. (hydrology) discharge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)

   Synonyms: fluxo, vazão

3. (figuratively) a great amount of volume of something

   Synonym: monte

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)

1. torrential (flowing heavily)

   Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French caudale.

Adjective

caudal m or n (feminine singular caudală, masculine plural caudali, feminine and neuter plural caudale)

1. 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)

1. flow
2. volume
3. funds

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caudālis.

Adjective

caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)

1. caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “caudal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014