caulis

English

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin caulis. Doublet of cole, gobi, and kale.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːlɪs

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.
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Etymology 2

Noun

caulis

  1. plural of cauli

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Latin

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ulis (“straight stalk”). Cognate with Sanskrit कुल्या (kulyā), Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”), Latvian kauls (“bone”), Old Irish cúal (“bundle of sticks”), and perhaps Old Armenian ցօղուն (cʻōłun, “stalk; straw”).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension

    1. stalk, stem
    2. stem of a cabbage
    Declension

    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    singular plural
    nominative caulis caulēs
    genitive caulis caulium
    dative caulī caulibus
    accusative caulem caulēs
    caulīs
    ablative caule caulibus
    vocative caulis caulēs
    Alternative forms
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    Borrowings:

    • → English: caulis (learned)
    • → Catalan: caule (semi-learned)
    • → Italian: caule (semi-learned)
    • → Macedonian: кељ (kelj)
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *kawl
      • Middle Breton: caul pl, caoll pl
      • Old Cornish: caul
        • → Cornish: kowl (semi-learned)
      • Middle Welsh: kawl
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *kauli, *kaul, *kaulā, *kawul
    • → Portuguese: caule (semi-learned)

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    caulīs

    1. dative/ablative plural of caulae
    Alternative forms
    • caullīs

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “caulis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 100

    Further reading

    • “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.
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