cauda
See also: cåuda
English edit
Noun edit
cauda (plural caudae)
- (anatomy) Short for cauda equina.
Dalmatian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cauda, either directly (with preservation of /au̯/) or, more likely, via Vulgar Latin cōda (the source of all other Romance forms), with /'oː/ > /au̯/; cf. Latin nōmen > Dalmatian naum.
Noun edit
cauda f
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”),[1] from *keh₂w-. Compare cūdō (“to beat, hammer”), caudex (“tree trunk, stump”), Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.da/, [ˈkäu̯d̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.da/, [ˈkäːu̯d̪ä]
Noun edit
cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cauda | caudae |
Genitive | caudae | caudārum |
Dative | caudae | caudīs |
Accusative | caudam | caudās |
Ablative | caudā | caudīs |
Vocative | cauda | caudae |
Derived terms edit
- cauda illa
- caudam trahere
- caudiformis
- caudālis (“having a tail; caudal”)
- caudātus (“tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated”) (Mediaeval)
Descendants edit
- Dalmatian: cauda (note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda
- Portuguese: cauda
- Vulgar Latin: cōda (see there for further descendants)
See also edit
References edit
- “cauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cauda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cauda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99
- ^ Study of Language, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1994
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin cauda. See also cola, inherited from the same origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cauda f (plural caudas)
- tail (posterior appendage or feathers of some animals)
- tail; tail end (posterior part or appendage of an object)
- (clothing) the part of a dress that is dragged on the floor
- (aviation) tail; empennage (rear structure of an aircraft)
- Synonym: empenagem
- (figurative) consequences
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cauda f (plural caudas)
- tail (of a garment)
Further reading edit
- “cauda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014