caudex
See also: Caudex
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôʹdĕks, IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdɛks/,[1]
Noun edit
caudex (plural caudices or caudexes)[1]
- (botany)[1] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
Related terms edit
References edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
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]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.deks/, [ˈkäu̯d̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.deks/, [ˈkäːu̯d̪eks]
Noun edit
caudex m (genitive caudicis); third declension
- A tree trunk, stump.
- A bollard; post.
- A book, writing; notebook, account book.
- (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
Derived terms edit
- caudica (“a raft”)
- caudicālis
- caudicārius
- caudiceus
Descendants edit
See also cōdex.
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
- ^ 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