different between connotation vs caudal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connot?ti?, from connot? (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connote +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n??te???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: con?no?ta?tion

Noun

connotation (plural connotations)

1. (semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

   The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.

2. (logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

   The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

Synonyms

• intension

Antonyms

• denotation

Related terms

• connotate
• connotative
• connote

Translations

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “connotation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connot?ti?, from connot? (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connoter +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.n?.ta.sj??/

Noun

connotation f (plural connotations)

1. connotation

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