cauda

cauda (plural caudae)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of cauda equina.

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.

cauda f

1. tail

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkau̯.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːu̯.d̪a]

cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension

1. tail (animal appendage)

   Alternative form: cōda

   Synonym: pēnis (archaic)

   Antonym: caput

First-declension noun.

• “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.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin cauda. Doublet of cola, which was inherited.

• Homophone: calda (Brazil)
• Rhymes: -awdɐ
• Hyphenation: cau‧da

cauda f (plural caudas)

1. tail (posterior appendage or feathers of some animals)

   Synonyms: (archaic) coda, rabo

2. tail; tail end (posterior part or appendage of an object)
   1. (clothing) the part of a dress that is dragged on the floor
   2. (aviation) tail; empennage (rear structure of an aircraft)

   Synonym: empenagem

   1. (astronomy) tail (stream of dust as gases blown from a comet)
   2. (typography, informal) tail; descender (stroke below the baseline of a letter)
3. (figurative) consequences

• caudal
• coda
• cola

• “cauda” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): /ˈkauda/ [ˈkau̯.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -auda
• Syllabification: cau‧da

cauda f (plural caudas)

1. tail (of a garment)

• “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], 10 December 2024