caulis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin caulis. Doublet of cole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/

Noun

caulis (plural caules)

1. (architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
2. (botany) The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state.

Translations

a leafy herbaceous stem

• Czech: lodyha (cs) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• aulics, clusia, sicula

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.lis/, [ˈkäu̯lʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.lis/, [ˈkäːu̯lis]

Etymology 1

Noun

(deprecated template usage) caulīs

1. dative plural of caulae
2. ablative plural of caulae

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-l-i. Cognate with Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”), Latvian kauls.

Alternative forms

• cōlis
• coles

Noun

caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension

1. stalk, stem
2. stem of a cabbage
3. penis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caulis	caulēs
Genitive	caulis	caulium
Dative	caulī	caulibus
Accusative	caulem	caulēs caulīs
Ablative	caule	caulibus
Vocative	caulis	caulēs

Derived terms

• cauliculus

Descendants

• Dalmatian: caul
• Italian: cavolo
• Old French: chous
  • French: chou
• Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese: col
  • Galician: col
• Old Occitan: caul
  • Catalan: col
  • Occitan: caul
• Old Galician-Portuguese: couve
  • Portuguese: couve
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: col
• Sardinian: càule
• Sicilian: cavulu
• Venetian: càvol, càorlo, càoło
• → Bavarian: Keel, Kel
  • → Hungarian: kel
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кељ

    Latin script: kelj

  • → Slovak: kel
• → English: caulis
• → Italian: caule
• → Low German: Kool
• → Macedonian: кељ (kelj)
• → Old Dutch: *kōl, *kōla
  • Middle Dutch: col, cole
    • Dutch: kool
      • Afrikaans: kool
• → Old English: cāwel, cāwl, cāul, cāl
  • Middle English: col, coul, coyl; cal, kal (Northern)
    • English: cole, kale, kail
    • Scots: cale, caill, kail
    • Yola: kaayle
    • → Irish: cál
  • → Old Norse: kál
    • Icelandic: kál
    • Faroese: kál
    • Norwegian: kål
    • Old Danish: kaal
      • Danish: kål
    • Old Swedish: kāl
      • Swedish: kål
      • → Finnish: kaali
    • Elfdalian: ką̊l
  • → Scottish Gaelic: càl
• → 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.