cardinalescardinalidad

cardinal in Spanish

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1adj
escardinalidad

Definitions

  1. 1.Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
  2. 2.Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
  3. 3.Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

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2adj
escardinal

Definitions

  1. 1.Primero en rango, importancia o jerarquía dentro de un conjunto.
  2. 2.Propio de o relativo a cualquiera de las direcciones principales de la brújula, norte, sur, este y oeste.
  3. 3.Dicho de un número, que expresa solo cantidad y no posición relativa en un conjunto.

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Examples

  • enThe cardinal directions are: north, south, east, and west.

    esLos puntos cardinales son: Norte, Sur, Este y Oeste.

  • enThe four cardinal points are three: South and North.

    esLos cuatro puntos cardinales son tres: el sur y el norte.

3noun
escardenal

Definitions

  1. 1.Cada uno de los prelados que en conjunto son consejeros del papa en los asuntos importantes, y que forman el cónclave para elegir por votación al sumo pontífice.

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Examples

  • enCardinals are, in general, excellent polyglots.

    esLos Cardenales son por lo general excelentes Políglotas.

  • enMy whole body is bruised from the rugby game.

    esMi cuerpo entero está lleno de cardenales tras el partido de rugby.

  • enCardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected pope.

    esEl cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio fue electo como papa.

4noun
esfundamental

Definitions

  1. 1.One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.
  2. 2.Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)
  3. 3.A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)

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