different between caudally vs caudal

English

Etymology

caudal +? -ly

Adverb

caudally (not comparable)

1. In a caudal manner; with regard to a tail
   • 2012, Phil Senter, Forearm orientation in Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) and implications for museum mounts, Palaeontologia Electronica, abstract:

     However, articulated specimens reveal that in hadrosaurids the radius articulates with the lateral condyle of the humerus, as in other vertebrates, and the palms face caudomedially, though more medially than caudally.

Translations

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