caulis

== English == === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Latin caulis. Doublet of cole, gobi, and kale. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/ Rhymes: -ɔːlɪs ==== 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. ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== caulis plural of cauli === Anagrams === aulics, clusia, sicula == 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”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkau̯.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaːu̯.lis] ==== Noun ==== caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension stalk, stem stem of a cabbage ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Alternative forms ===== cōlis coles ===== Derived terms ===== cauliculus cauliculatus ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkau̯.liːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaːu̯.lis] ==== Noun ==== caulīs dative/ablative plural of caulae ===== Alternative forms ===== caullīs === References === === 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.