cadell

Inherited from Latin catellus. Compare Occitan cadèl and cadèu, French chiot (Old French chael), Italian catello, Romanian cățel.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈðeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kaˈðeʎ]

cadell m (plural cadells)

1. cub (young of various animals)
   • 2016 October, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico‎:

     L'home explica en el vídeo que fent senderisme per la muntanya es va trobar una ossa i dos cadells.

     The man explains in the video that while hiking in the mountain, he found a bear and her two cubs.

2. ratchet, catch
3. tonguing plane
4. European mole cricket
5. (in the plural) water lily

   Synonyms: nimfea, nenúfar

6. (in the plural) spiny cocklebur (Xanthium spinosum)

   Synonym: espina-xoca

7. (historical) a member of one of the two factions into which Catalan nobility were divided during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were opposed by the nyerros

   Synonym: robuster

• encadellar

• “cadell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cadell” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.