cauda
Appearance
See also: cåuda
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cauda (plural caudae)
- (anatomy) Short for cauda equina.
See also
[edit]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 Latin) 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.
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
- caudālis (“having a tail; caudal”)
- caudam trahere
- caudātus (“tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated”) (Mediaeval)
- caudiformis
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. Doublet of cola, which was inherited.
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]Further reading
[edit]- “cauda” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cauda f (plural caudas)
- tail (of a garment)
Further reading
[edit]- “cauda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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