caulis

English

From Latin caulis. Doublet of cole.

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.

a leafy herbaceous stem

caulīs

From Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-l-i. Cognate with Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”), Latvian kauls.[1]

caulis m (genitive caulis); third declension

Third declension.

Dalmatian: caul
Italian: cavolo
Old French: chous
- French: chou
Old Galician / Old Portuguese: col
- Galician: col
Old Occitan: caul
- Catalan: col
- Occitan: caul
Old Portuguese: couve
- Portuguese: couve
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: col
Sardinian: càule
Sicilian: cavulu, càvulu, caulu, càulu
Venetian: càvol, càorlo, càoło
→ Bavarian: Keel, Kel
- → Hungarian: kel
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: кељ
  
  Latin: kelj
- → Slovak: kel
→ English: caulis
→ Italian: caule
→ Low German: Kool
→ Macedonian: кељ (kelj)
→ Old Dutch: *kōl, *kōla
- Middle Dutch: col, cole
  - Dutch: kool
    - Afrikaans: kool
→ Old English: cāwel, cawl, caul, cāl, caƿel
- Middle English: cal, cale, col, cole
  - Scots: cale, caill, kail
  - English: cole, kale, kail
  - → Irish: cál
- → Old Norse: kál
  - Icelandic: kál
  - Faroese: kál
  - Norwegian: kål
  - Old Danish: kaal
    - Danish: kål
  - Old Swedish: kāl
    - Swedish: kål
    - → Finnish: kaali
  - Elfdalian: ką̊l
- → Scottish Gaelic: càl
→ Old High German: kolo
- German: Kohl
→ Portuguese: caule
→ Welsh: cawl
- → English: cawl

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

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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