FromMiddle English, fromLatincarnālis(“fleshly, of the flesh”), fromcarō(“flesh”).
carnal (comparativemorecarnal,superlativemostcarnal)
- Relating to the physical and especiallysexual appetites or activities.
1941,George Ryley Scott,Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page29:At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually hadcarnal intercourse.
- Worldly or earthly;temporal.
- Of or relating to thebody orflesh.
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
worldly or earthly; temporal
of or relating to the body or flesh
- “carnal”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “carnal”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatincarnālis.
carnal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralcarnals)
- carnal(relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- consanguineous(descending from the same ancestor)
- “carnal”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “carnal”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “carnal” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carnal” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
carnal
- carnal
FromOld Galician-Portuguesecarnal, fromLatincarnālis(“of the flesh”), fromcarō(“flesh”). Bysurface analysis,carne +-al.
- Rhymes:(Portugal)-al,(Brazil)-aw
- Hyphenation:car‧nal
carnal m orf (pluralcarnais)
- carnal(relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- (religion)carnal;earthly;worldly(concerned with human matters)
- Synonym:terreno
- Antonym:espiritual
- consanguineous(descending from the same ancestor)
- Synonym:consanguíneo
- irmãocarnal ―blood brother.
Borrowed fromLatincarnalis. Bysurface analysis,carne +-al.
carnal m orn (feminine singularcarnală,masculine pluralcarnali,feminine and neuter pluralcarnale)
- fleshly
- carnal
Borrowed fromLatincarnālis(“fleshly, of the flesh”), fromcarō(“flesh”).
- IPA(key): /kaɾˈnal/[kaɾˈnal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:car‧nal
carnal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralcarnales)
- carnal(relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- Synonyms:sexual,libidinoso
- consanguineous,by blood(related through birth)
- Synonym:consanguíneo
1962,Julio Cortázar, “Simulacros”, inHistorias de cronopios y de famas:Por ejemplo, el patíbulo, hasta hoy nadie se ha puesto de acuerdo sobre el origen de la idea, mi hermana la quinta afirma que fue uno de mis primoscarnales, que son muy filósofos, pero mi tío el mayor sostiene que se le ocurió a él después de leer una novela de capa y espada.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
carnal m (pluralcarnales,femininecarnala,feminine pluralcarnalas)
- (Mexico)ellipsis ofhermano carnal(“brother by blood”);brother(in opposition to adopted or in-law)
