caule

From Latin caulis. Doublet of col.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.le/

caule m (plural caules)

1. (botany) stem

   Synonyms: tija, tronc

• caulinar

• “caule” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin caulis. See also cavolo.

caule m (plural cauli)

1. (botany) stem (of a herbaceous plant)

• acaule
• caulinare
• cavolo

caule

1. ablative singular of caulis

Borrowed from Latin caulis. Doublet of couve.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awli, (Portugal) -awlɨ
• Hyphenation: cau‧le

caule m (plural caules)

1. (botany) stem (above-ground stalk of a vascular plant)

• couve

• caul, cawl, kawle

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt (“young donkey, young camel”), from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

caule (plural caulès or caules)

1. horse

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 29