cauda

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

Noun

cauda f

1. tail

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Latin

Alternative forms

• cōda

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂, from *keh₂w-. Compare Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).

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

• caudālis (“having a tail; caudal”)
• caudātus (“tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated”) (Mediaeval)

• cauda illa
• caudam trahere

• 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

References

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cauda”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “cauda” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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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/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.dɐ/
  • Homophone: calda

Noun

cauda f (plural caudas)

1. tail (posterior appendage or feathers of some animals)
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)
   3. (astronomy) tail (stream of dust as gases blown from a comet)
   4. (typography, informal) tail; descender (stroke below the baseline of a letter)
3. (figuratively) consequences

Synonyms

• (tail of an animal): rabo
• (empennage): empenagem

Related terms

• caudal
• coda
• cola