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carnal

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English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (fleshly, of the flesh), from carō (flesh).

Pronunciation

Adjective

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
    • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
      At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.
  2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carnālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

carnal m or f (masculine and feminine plural carnals)

  1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
  2. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)
    germà carnal
    blood brother

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Adjective

carnal

  1. carnal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carnal, from Latin carnālis (of the flesh), from carō (flesh). By surface analysis, carne + -al.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: car‧nal

Adjective

carnal m or f (plural carnais)

  1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
  2. (religion) carnal; earthly; worldly (concerned with human matters)
    Synonym: terreno
    Antonym: espiritual
  3. consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)
    Synonym: consanguíneo
    irmão carnalblood brother.

Derived terms

  • carnalidade
  • carnalizar
  • carne

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carnalis. By surface analysis, carne + -al.

Adjective

carnal m or n (feminine singular carnală, masculine plural carnali, feminine and neuter plural carnale)

  1. fleshly
  2. carnal

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin carnālis (fleshly, of the flesh), from carō (flesh).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɾˈnal/ [kaɾˈnal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: car‧nal

Adjective

carnal m or f (masculine and feminine plural carnales)

  1. carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
    Synonyms: sexual, libidinoso
  2. consanguineous, by blood (related through birth)
    Synonym: consanguíneo
    • 1962, Julio Cortázar, “Simulacros”, in Historias de cronopios y de famas:
      Por ejemplo, el patíbulo, hasta hoy nadie se ha puesto de acuerdo sobre el origen de la idea, mi hermana la quinta afirma que fue uno de mis primos carnales, que son muy filósofos, pero mi tío el mayor sostiene que se le ocurió a él después de leer una novela de capa y espada.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Noun

carnal m (plural carnales, feminine carnala, feminine plural carnalas)

  1. (Mexico) ellipsis of hermano carnal (brother by blood); brother (in opposition to adopted or in-law)

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