caudeus

Latin

Etymology

Used by Plautus to describe the material a box or chest is made of, which suggests derivation from caudex (“tree trunk, block of wood”), but the form suggests derivation from cauda (“tail”) +‎ -eus (“-en, -y”). Compare also cōdēta, used to refer to a place where some type of plant grew. All of these words in caud-/cōd- are probably derived from a common root which can be reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d- (“cleaved, separate”),^[1] from *keh₂w-.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.de.us/, [ˈkäu̯d̪eʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.de.us/, [ˈkäːu̯d̪eus]

Adjective

caudeus (feminine caudea, neuter caudeum); first/second-declension adjective

wooden,^[2] made of planks or logs^[3]
(uncertain) made from rushes^[4] or from some tail-formed plant^[1]

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	caudeus	caudea	caudeum	caudeī	caudeae	caudea
genitive	caudeī	caudeae	caudeī	caudeōrum	caudeārum	caudeōrum
dative	caudeō	caudeae	caudeō	caudeīs
accusative	caudeum	caudeam	caudeum	caudeōs	caudeās	caudea
ablative	caudeō	caudeā	caudeō	caudeīs
vocative	caudee	caudea	caudeum	caudeī	caudeae	caudea

Related terms

caudex

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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
^ “caudeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
^ R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “caudeus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
^ caudeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

[De_Vaan-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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

[2] “caudeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

[3] R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “caudeus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

[4] udeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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