Borrowed fromLatincaudālis(“having a tail”).
caudal (notcomparable)
- (zoology) Pertaining to thetail orposterior orhind part of a body.
1871,Charles Darwin, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, inThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London:John Murray, […],→OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection),page269:The male widow-bird, remarkable for hiscaudal plumes,[…]
1982,TC Boyle,Water Music, Penguin, published2006, page 3:Dassoud[…] stepped forward with a lash composed of thecaudal 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 toinferior.
- Antonyms:cephalad,cephalic
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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caudal (pluralcaudals)
- A caudalvertebra.
Borrowed fromLatincaudālis, fromcauda. See alsoqueue.
caudal (femininecaudale,masculine pluralcaudaux,feminine pluralcaudales)
- (anatomy)caudal
- Rhymes:(Portugal)-al,(Brazil)-aw
- Hyphenation:cau‧dal
Learned borrowing fromLatincaudālis(“having a tail”), fromcauda(“tail”). Bysurface analysis,cauda +-al.
caudal m orf (pluralcaudais)
- (zoology)caudal(of or relating to the tail)
caudal f (pluralcaudais)
- caudal vertebra
- Synonym:vértebra caudal
Borrowed fromSpanishcaudal, fromLatincapitālis(“capital; deadly”). See also the doubletscabedal andcapital.
caudal m (pluralcaudais)
- 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
caudal m orf (pluralcaudais)
- torrential(flowing heavily)
- Synonyms:caudaloso,torrencial
Borrowed fromFrenchcaudale.
caudal m orn (feminine singularcaudală,masculine pluralcaudali,feminine and neuter pluralcaudale)
- caudal
- IPA(key): /kauˈdal/[kau̯ˈð̞al]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:cau‧dal
Inherited fromOld Spanishcabdal, fromLatincapitālis.Doublet ofcapital. Cognate withEnglishchattel,cattle andcapital.
caudal m (pluralcaudales)
- flow
- volume
- funds
Borrowed fromLatincaudālis.
caudal m orf (masculine and feminine pluralcaudales)
- caudal(pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)
