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caulae.

a railing or lattice barrier; hurdles (for a sheep-fold)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈkau̯.ɫae̯]Classical-Latin[ˈkaːu̯.le]
  1. a railing or lattice barrier; hurdles (for a sheep-fold)

    declension-1 · feminine · plural
  2. a railing or lattice barrier; hurdles (for a sheep-fold) sheepfold, pigsty, coop etc.

    Medieval-Latin · declension-1 · feminine · plural
  3. pores (of the skin), holes, apertures

    declension-1 · feminine · plural
Where this word comes from

Possibly from Proto-Italic *kaɣela (“little tie, juncture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“to enclose”), in this case cognate to Latin cohum, incohō, Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌇𐌀𐌃 (kahad, “let him take”), Welsh cael (“to get”), Welsh caer (“fortified settlement”), English hedge. Sense 2 is difficult to connect semantically and could represent a diminutive to cavus (“hollow”) with regular syncope.

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