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

Adjective

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
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

References

  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. ^ caudeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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