# caudal
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔːdəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːdəl
* Homophones: caudle; coddle (cot–caught merger)

### Adjective

caudal (not comparable)
* (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
** 1871, Charles Darwin, “Principles of Sexual Selection”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 269:The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]
** 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal 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 to inferior.
    Antonyms: cephalad, cephalic

#### Derived terms

* acaudal
* anterocaudal
* bicaudal
* caudal artery
* caudal fin
* caudality
* caudalization
* caudal keel
* caudally
* caudalmost
* caudal peduncle
* caudalward
* cephalocaudal
* craniocaudal
* distocaudal
* dorsocaudal
* femorocaudal
* frontocaudal
* laterocaudal
* lumbocaudal
* mediocaudal
* midcaudal
* pericaudal
* posterocaudal
* precaudal
* proximocaudal
* rostrocaudal
* sacrocaudal
* subcaudal
* supracaudal
* tricaudal
* ventrocaudal

#### Related terms

* queue

#### Translations
### Noun

caudal (plural caudals)
* A caudal vertebra.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Dacula, Laduca

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ko.dal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)
* (anatomy) caudal

#### Derived terms

* nageoire caudale
* pédoncule caudal

### Further reading

* “caudal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kawˈdaw/ [kaʊ̯ˈdaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kawˈdal/ [kawˈðaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kawˈdal/ [kawˈðaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kawˈda.li/ [kawˈða.li]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: cau‧dal

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”), from cauda (“tail”). By surface analysis, cauda +‎ -al.

#### Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)
* (zoology) caudal (of or relating to the tail)

##### Derived terms

* barbatana caudal
* nadadeira caudal
* vértebra caudal

#### Noun

caudal f (plural caudais)
* caudal vertebra
    Synonym: vértebra caudal

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish caudal, from Latin capitālis (“capital; deadly”). See also the doublets cabedal and capital.

#### Noun

caudal m (plural caudais)
* 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

#### Adjective

caudal m or f (plural caudais)
* torrential (flowing heavily)
    Synonyms: caudaloso, torrencial

##### Related terms

* cabeça
* cabedal
* caudalosidade
* caudaloso

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French caudale.

### Adjective

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

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kauˈdal/ [kau̯ˈð̞al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: cau‧dal

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cabdal, from Latin capitālis. Doublet of capital. Cognate with English chattel, cattle and capital.

#### Noun

caudal m (plural caudales)
* flow
* volume
* funds

##### Derived terms

* caja de caudales
* caudaloso

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caudālis.

#### Adjective

caudal m or f (masculine and feminine plural caudales)
* caudal (pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body)

##### Derived terms

* aleta caudal
* caudalmente

### Further reading

* “caudal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10