caulis
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/
Noun
caulis (plural caules)
- (architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
- (botany) The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.lis/, [ˈkau̯.lɪs]
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-l-i. Cognate with Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”), Latvian kauls.[1]
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | caulis | caulēs |
| Genitive | caulis | caulum |
| Dative | caulī | caulibus |
| Accusative | caulem | caulēs |
| Ablative | caule | caulibus |
| Vocative | caulis | caulēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: caul
- Italian: cavolo
- Old French: chous
- French: chou
- Old Galician / Old Portuguese: col
- Galician: col
- Old Occitan: caul
- Old Portuguese: couve
- Portuguese: couve
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: col
- Sardinian: càule
- Sicilian: cavulu, càvulu, caulu, càulu
- Venetian: càvol, càorlo, càoło
- → Bavarian: Keel, Kel
- → English: caulis
- → Italian: caule
- → Low German: Kool
- → Macedonian: кељ (kelj)
- → Old Dutch: *kōl, *kōla
- → Old English: cāwel, cawl, caul, cāl, caƿel
- → Old High German: kolo
- German: Kohl
- → Portuguese: caule
- → Welsh: cawl
- → English: cawl
References
- caulis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caulis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caulis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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