caule

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caulis. Doublet of col.

Pronunciation

Noun

caule m (plural caules)

  1. (botany) stem
    Synonyms: tija, tronc

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caulis. See also cavolo.

Noun

caule m (plural cauli)

  1. (botany) stem (of a herbaceous plant)

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Latin

Noun

caule

  1. ablative singular of caulis

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caulis. Doublet of couve.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
  • Hyphenation: cau‧le

Noun

caule m (plural caules)

  1. (botany) stem (above-ground stalk of a vascular plant)
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Etymology 2

Verb

caule

  1. inflection of caular:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt (“young donkey, young camel”), from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

Pronunciation

Noun

caule (plural caulès or caules)

  1. horse
    • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 12:
      'Tus a gearded ee freightened Billeen's yola caule.
      'Twas a goat that frightened Billy's old caule (horse).

References

  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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