different between caudal vs dorsal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caud?lis (“having a tail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d?l/
• Rhymes: -??d?l
• 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.

   • the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 3:

     Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

Derived terms

Related terms

• queue

Translations

Noun

caudal (plural caudals)

1. A caudal vertebra.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dacula, Laduca

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caud?lis, from cauda. See also queue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.dal/

Adjective

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

1. (anatomy) caudal

Further reading

• “caudal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaw.?daw/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin caud?lis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). Equivalent to cauda +? -al.

Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais, comparable)

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 capit?lis (“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, comparable)

1. torrential (flowing heavily)

   Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French caudale

Adjective

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

1. caudal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kau?dal/, [kau??ð?al]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capit?lis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.

Noun

caudal m (plural caudales)

1. flow
2. volume
3. funds

Derived terms

• caja de caudales
• caudaloso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caud?lis.

Adjective

caudal (plural caudales)

1. caudal

Derived terms

• aleta caudal

English

Etymology

From Middle English dorsal, dorsale, from Medieval Latin dors?lis (“of or relating to the back”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??s?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s?l

Adjective

dorsal (comparative more dorsal, superlative most dorsal)

1. (anatomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
2. (of a knife) Having only one sharp side.
3. (anatomy) Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.
4. (linguistics, of a sound) Produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
5. (botany) Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
6. (botany) Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

Antonyms

• ventral

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,? distal,? dorsal,? lateral,? medial,? posterior,? proximal,? ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}
• (linguistics): labial, coronal, radical, laryngeal

Derived terms

• dorsal fin
• dorsally
• dorsal root
• lumbodorsal

Related terms

• endorse, indorse

Translations

Noun

dorsal (plural dorsals)

1. (art) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.

1. In snakes, any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.
2. (linguistics) A sound produced using the dorsum of the tongue.

Anagrams

• lardos

Catalan

Adjective

dorsal (masculine and feminine plural dorsals)

1. dorsal

Derived terms

• aleta dorsal

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin dorsum with adjective-forming suffix -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.sal/

Adjective

dorsal (feminine singular dorsale, masculine plural dorsaux, feminine plural dorsales)

1. dorsal

Descendants

• ? Dutch: dorsaal

Further reading

• “dorsal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???za?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

dorsal (not comparable)

1. dorsal

Declension

Interlingua

Adjective

dorsal (not comparable)

1. dorsal

Portuguese

Adjective

dorsal m or f (plural dorsais, comparable)

1. (anatomy) dorsal (of the back)
2. (anatomy) dorsal (of the top surface of a hand or foot)

Romanian

Etymology

From French dorsal

Adjective

dorsal m or n (feminine singular dorsal?, masculine plural dorsali, feminine and neuter plural dorsale)

1. dorsal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dors?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??sal/, [d?o??sal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

dorsal (plural dorsales)

1. (anatomy) dorsal

Derived terms

• aleta dorsal
• espina dorsal
• toracodorsal

Noun

dorsal m (plural dorsales)

1. ridge

Derived terms

• dorsal ancho

Related terms

• dorso

Further reading

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