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caduc
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
caduc (feminine caduca, masculine plural caducs, feminine plural caduques)
- caducous; transient, fleeting
- lapsed, expired, obsolete
- (botany) deciduous
- Synonym: decidu
- senile, decrepit
- Synonym: decrèpit
Derived terms
Noun
caduc m (plural caducs)
- lapse, senior moment
- drivel
- Synonym: catúfol
Further reading
- “caduc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “caduc”, 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
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French caduc, from Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
caduc (feminine caduque, masculine plural caducs, feminine plural caduques)
- (botany) deciduous (relating to trees that shed their leaves in winter)
- 2005, Revue horticole:
- Le Weigela possède un feuillage caduc, qui peut être vert, rouge, jaune ou panaché.
- The Weigela has a deciduous foliage that can be green, red, yellow or variegated.
- obsolete
- 2004, Pékin 2003. Science et progrès humain. Strasbourg 2003. Construction de l'Europe, page 210:
- N'ayant pas pu le trouver dans les dictionnaires, je ne sais pas s'il s'agit d'un mot caduc ou inventé par l'auteur
- Not having been able to find it in the dictionaries, I do not know whether it is an obsolete word or one invented by the author
- null and void
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: kadük
Further reading
- “caduc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
caduc m or n (feminine singular caducă, masculine plural caduci, feminine and neuter plural caduce)
Declension
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