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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
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹnəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Adjective
carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)
- 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.
- Worldly or earthly; temporal.
- Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
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worldly or earthly; temporal
of or relating to the body or flesh
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Further reading
- “carnal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “carnal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
carnal m or f (masculine and feminine plural carnals)
- carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)
- germà carnal
- blood brother
Related terms
- carn
- carnalitat
Further reading
- “carnal”, 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
- “carnal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “carnal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carnal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Adjective
carnal
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese carnal, from Latin carnālis (“of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”). By surface analysis, carne + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
carnal m or f (plural carnais)
- carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- (religion) carnal; earthly; worldly (concerned with human matters)
- Synonym: terreno
- Antonym: espiritual
- consanguineous (descending from the same ancestor)
- Synonym: consanguíneo
- irmão carnal ― blood brother.
Derived terms
Related 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)
Declension
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
carnal m or f (masculine and feminine plural carnales)
- carnal (relating to the physical, especially sexual, appetites)
- Synonyms: sexual, libidinoso
- 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.
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Derived terms
Noun
carnal m (plural carnales, feminine carnala, feminine plural carnalas)
- (Mexico) ellipsis of hermano carnal (“brother by blood”); brother (in opposition to adopted or in-law)
Related terms
Further reading
- “carnal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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