carnal

From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

• carnally
• carnal knowledge

• incarnate
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

• carnal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• carnal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

From Latin carnālis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kəɾˈnal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kərˈnal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kaɾˈnal/

carnal (masculine and feminine plural carnals)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

   germà carnal

   blood brother

• carn
• carnalitat

• “carnal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “carnal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “carnal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carnal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Portuguese carnal, from Latin carnālis (“of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.ˈnaw/, /kaɹ.ˈnaw/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.ˈnaw/, /kaɻ.ˈnaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.ˈnaɫ/
• Hyphenation: car‧nal

carnal m or f (plural carnais, comparable)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
2. (religion) carnal; earthly; worldly (concerned with human matters)
3. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)

   Irmão carnal.

   Blood brother.

• (worldly): terreno
• (consanguineous): consanguíneo

• (worldly): espiritual

• carnalidade
• carnalmente
• carnalizar
• carne

From Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from caro (“flesh”).

• IPA^(key): /karˈnal/
• Rhymes: -al

carnal (plural carnales)

1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)

   Synonyms: sexual, libidinoso

carnal m (plural carnales, feminine carnala, feminine plural carnalas)

1. (Mexico) brother (short form of hermano carnal, "carnal brother", in opposition to adopted or in-law)

• carnalidad
• carne

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