See also: Caudex

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Etymology edit

From Latin caudex (tree trunk”, “tree stem); compare codex.[1]

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Noun edit

caudex (plural caudices or caudexes)[1]

  1. (botany)[1] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ‖caudex” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Latin edit

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Etymology edit

Uncertain, but some have connected it to Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- (ash tree), the same source as English ash, Old Norse askr, Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (wild mountain ash), Lithuanian úosis, Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Albanian ah (beech), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oxúa, beech), Old Armenian հացի (hacʿi). The connection stems from the assumption that Indo-Europeans used hollowed out ash trees as boats and skiffs.[1]

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Noun edit

caudex m (genitive caudicis); third declension

  1. A tree trunk, stump.
  2. A bollard; post.
  3. A book, writing; notebook, account book.
  4. (derogatory) A blockhead, idiot.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caudex caudicēs
Genitive caudicis caudicum
Dative caudicī caudicibus
Accusative caudicem caudicēs
Ablative caudice caudicibus
Vocative caudex caudicēs

Synonyms edit

  • (bollard, blockhead, idiot): gurdus

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See also cōdex.

  • Catalan: càudex
  • Portuguese: cáudice

References edit

  • caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caudex 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)
  • caudex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • caudex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ Schrader, Otto (1890) Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture, translated from the 2nd German edition by Frank Byron Jevons, London: Charles Griffin and Company