caulis

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːlɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːlɪs

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.

caulis

1. plural of cauli

• aulics, clusia, sicula

• cōlis

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkau̯.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːu̯.lis]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caulīs

1. dative/ablative plural of caulae

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]

• cōlis
• coles

caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension

1. stalk, stem
2. stem of a cabbage

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• cauliculus
• cauliculatus

Borrowings:

• “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.