cauda

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

cauda f

1. tail

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European - compare Lithuanian kuodas ‎(“tuft”).

Alternative forms

• cōda

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.da/

Noun

cauda f ‎(genitive caudae); first declension

1. A tail (of an animal)

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cauda	caudae
genitive	caudae	caudārum
dative	caudae	caudīs
accusative	caudam	caudās
ablative	caudā	caudīs
vocative	cauda	caudae

Antonyms

• caput

Derived terms

Terms derived from cauda

• cauda illa
• caudālis ‎(“having a tail; caudal”)

• caudam trahere
• caudātus ‎(“tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated”) (Mediaeval)

• caudiformis

Descendants

Mostly from the form cōda

• Aragonese: coda
• Aromanian: coadã
• Catalan: cua
• Dalmatian: cauda
• English: queue (through French)
• Franco-Provençal: cua
• French: queue
• Friulian: code
• Italian: coda
• Occitan: coa

• Old Portuguese: cauda (borrowed)
• Portuguese: cauda (borrowed), cola
• Romanian: coadă
• Romansch: cua
• Sardinian: cò, coa, coda
• Sicilian: cuda
• Spanish: cola
• Venetian: cóa

See also

• cōda
• picta

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References

• cauda in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, 1883–1887)
• cauda in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

cauda

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, a borrowing from Latin cauda. See also cola, inherited from the same origin.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.ðɐ/

Noun

cauda f

1. tail.

Synonyms

• rabo

Related terms

• caudal
• cola