caule

Borrowed from Latin caulis. Doublet of col.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkaw.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaw.le]

caule m (plural caules)

1. (botany) stem

   Synonyms: tija, tronc

• caulinar

• “caule”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• Rhymes: -awli, -awlɨ
• Hyphenation: cau‧le

Borrowed from Latin caulis. Doublet of couve.

caule m (plural caules)

1. (botany) stem (part of the axis of a plant, which normally supports the leaves)

caule

1. inflection of caular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “caule”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “caule”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /kɔːl/
• Homophone: coale

caule (plural caulès) ^[1]

1. horse
   • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 12^[2]:

     'Tus a gearded ee freightened Billeen's yola caule.

     'Twas a goat that frightened Billy's old caule (horse).