caudex
See also: Caudex
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
caudex (plural caudices or caudexes)[1]
- (botany)[1] An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.
Related terms
References
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain, but some have connected it to Proto-Indo-European *h₃osk- (“ash tree”), the same source as English ash, Old Norse askr, Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi). The connection stems from the assumption that Indo-Europeans used hollowed out ash trees as boats and skiffs.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.deks/, [ˈkäu̯d̪ɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkau̯.deks/, [ˈkäːu̯d̪eks]
Noun
caudex m (genitive caudicis); third declension
- A tree trunk, stump.
- A bollard; post.
- A book, writing; notebook, account book.c 49 AD, Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life), Penguin, →ISBN, page 21:
- That was Claudius, who for this reason was called Caudex because a structure linking several wooden planks was called in antiquity a caudex. Hence too the Law Tables are called codices, and even today the boats which carry provisions up the Tiber are called by the old-fashioned name codicariae.
- (derogatory) A blockhead, idiot.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caudex | caudicēs |
Genitive | caudicis | caudicum |
Dative | caudicī | caudicibus |
Accusative | caudicem | caudicēs |
Ablative | caudice | caudicibus |
Vocative | caudex | caudicēs |
Synonyms
- (bollard, blockhead, idiot): gurdus
Derived terms
- caudica (“a raft”)
- caudicālis
- caudicārius
- caudiceus
Descendants
References
- “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caudex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caudex 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)
- caudex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “caudex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ Schrader, Otto (1890) Frank Byron Jevons, transl., Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture, London: Charles Griffin and Company
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