Catalan–English dictionary

clementina

A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.

clenxa

Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:

Cleòpatra

A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.

cleptocràcia

A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.

cleptòman

One who steals compulsively.

clergue

A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.

clerical

Of or relating to clerks or their work.

clica

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

client

A patron, a client; a person or company who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

client habitual

A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.

clientela

The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.

climàtic

Of, relating to, or influenced by climate.

clímax

(narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

Climent

A en given name, borne by an early pope and by several saints.

clínic

(chiefly, US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.

clínica

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

clínicament

In the setting of a medical clinic; in a clinical setting; (of a health condition) to a degree high enough to be relevant to clinical practice.

clíper

(nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.

clissar

(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

clister

Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.

clisteri

Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.

clítoris

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.]

clivella

A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.

clivellat

(plant disease) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

clixé

(rhetoric) Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude. [from 19th c.]

cloaca

(anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

clofolla

The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

clonar

(transitive) To create a clone of.

cloqueig

The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

clor

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

clorat

(chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

clorhídric

(chemistry) Of or relating to hydrochloric acid.

clorofil·la

(biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

cloroform

(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

clorur

(chemistry) Any salt of hydrochloric acid.

closca

A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.

closca de nou

The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

clotell

(rare) The back of the neck, nape; also scruff of the neck.

clotxa

A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.

cloure

(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

clovella

The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

club

(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

club nocturn

A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.

cnidari

(zoology) Any of various invertebrate animals, such as jellyfish, hydras, sea anemones, corals and formerly sponges and ctenophores that belong to the phylum Cnidaria. [from 19th c.]

co-

Together: the root word is done co-incidently.

coàgul

A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

coagular

(transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

coagular-se

(transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

coala

A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.

coartada

(legal) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

cobalt

A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.

cobdícia

Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth

cobdiciós

Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

cobejós

Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

cobert

Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).

coberta

That which encloses or encases.

coberta del conreu

(agriculture, horticulture) Any material used to cover the top layer of soil to protect, insulate, or decorate it, or to discourage weeds or retain moisture.

coberteria

(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

coberts

(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

cobertura

(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.

coble

(chiefly, historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.

cobra

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

cobrar

(transitive) To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).

cobrefoc

Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.

cobretaula

A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

cobricel

A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

cobricel arbori

The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.

cobrir

(transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.

coc

One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.

coca

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

cocaïna

(uncountable, organic compound, pharmaceutical drug) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.

cocció al vapor

The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymically) operation under load.

còccix

(medical, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

coco

A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.

cocodril

Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.

cocodril persa

A large crocodile, Crocodylus palustris, of southwest Asia, having a very broad wrinkled snout.

coctelera

A device used to mix beverages (usually alcoholic) by shaking.

coda

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

còdex

An early manuscript book.

codi

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

codificar

To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

còdol

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

codony

(countable) The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.

codonyer

(countable) The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.

coerció

(legal, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.

coercitiu

Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce.

coet

A type of firework that uses a solid rocket engine to rise quickly into the sky where it emits a variety of effects such as stars, bangs, crackles, etc.

coetani

Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)

coexistència

The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.

coexistir

(intransitive, stative, of two or more things, people, concepts, etc.) To exist contemporaneously or in the same area.

cofa

A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.

cofre

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

cofret

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.

cogitació

(uncountable) The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.

Cognac

A city and commune of Charente department, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; famous for cognac brandy.

cognat

(linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.

cognició

The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.

cognitiu

Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

cognitivament

Relating to thinking (cognition).

cognom

The portion of a person's name that is generally hereditary or treated as an indicator of a person's family, which may be shared with other members of the family, or otherwise derived from their names in some fashion; distinguished from that person's given name(s).

cogombre

(vegetable) The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

cogombrera

(vegetable) The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

cogombret

A small cucumber, often pickled whole.

cohabitant

A person who cohabits with another

cohesionar

(intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion.

cohesiu

Having cohesion.

coincidir

(intransitive) To agree; to correspond.

coiot

(canid) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

coïssor

Injury or wear caused by friction.

coit

(formal, now, also, humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile–vaginal penetration.

coix

(especially, of an, animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

coixejar

(intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.

coixesa

An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

coixí

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

coixí de seguretat

(automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.

coixinera

A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.

coixinet

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.

col

Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

col arrissada

An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

col de cabdell

A Mediterranean variety of kale, Brassica oleracea var. acephala.

col·laboració

(uncountable) The act of collaborating.

col·laboracionisme

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

col·laboracionista

(pejorative) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. [from 1940]

col·laborador

A person who works with others towards a common goal.

col·laborar

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

col·lagen

(biochemistry) The main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of the connective tissues of many animals.

col·lapsar

(intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

col·lapsar-se

(intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.

col·lapse

The act of collapsing.

col·lar

(transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.

col·leccionador

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

col·leccionar

(transitive) To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

col·leccionisme

A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

col·leccionista

A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

col·lectiu

(grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.

col·lectivament

In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

col·lectivisme

An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively

col·lector

A person who is employed to collect payments.

col·lega

(slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).

col·legiat

Of, or relating to a college, or college students.

col·legir

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

col·lisió

An instance of colliding.

col·lisonador

(physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.

col·locació

(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

col·locar

(ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

col·locat

(slang) High on drugs, especially cannabis.

col·loide

(physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.

col·loquial

(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.

col·lusió

A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy.

cola

A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.