"cauda" meaning in Latin

See cauda in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkau̯.da/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈkäu̯d̪ä] [Classical-Latin], /ˈkau̯.da/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈkäːu̯d̪ä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”), from *keh₂w-. Compare cūdō (“to beat, hammer”), caudex (“tree trunk, stump”), Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”). Etymology templates: {{inh|la|itc-pro|*kaudā||tail}} Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), {{inh|la|ine-pro||*keh₂u-d-eh₂|t=cleaved, separate}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”), {{cog|lt|kuodas||tuft}} Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”) Head templates: {{la-noun|cauda<1>}} cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|cauda<1>}} Forms: caudae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], cauda [nominative, singular], caudae [nominative, plural], caudae [genitive, singular], caudārum [genitive, plural], caudae [dative, singular], caudīs [dative, plural], caudam [accusative, singular], caudās [accusative, plural], caudā [ablative, singular], caudīs [ablative, plural], cauda [singular, vocative], caudae [plural, vocative]
  1. tail (animal appendage) Tags: declension-1, feminine Synonyms: pēnis Derived forms: cauda illa, caudālis (english: having a tail; caudal), caudam trahere, caudātus (english: tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated) [Medieval-Latin], caudiformis

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "VL.",
            "2": "cōda"
          },
          "expansion": "Vulgar Latin: cōda",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Vulgar Latin: cōda (see there for further descendants)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "cauda",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Dalmatian: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda"
          },
          "expansion": "(note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Dalmatian: cauda (note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "cauda",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "cauda"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: cauda"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "cauda",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: cauda"
    }
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        "4": "",
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        "3": "",
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”), from *keh₂w-. Compare cūdō (“to beat, hammer”), caudex (“tree trunk, stump”), Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cauda",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cauda",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cauda<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cauda<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "caput"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms with variable monophthongization",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "cauda illa"
        },
        {
          "english": "having a tail; caudal",
          "word": "caudālis"
        },
        {
          "word": "caudam trahere"
        },
        {
          "english": "tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated",
          "tags": [
            "Medieval-Latin"
          ],
          "word": "caudātus"
        },
        {
          "word": "caudiformis"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: cōda"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tail (animal appendage)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cauda-la-noun-4VHN7Dv2",
      "links": [
        [
          "tail",
          "tail"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pēnis"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkau̯.da/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäu̯d̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkau̯.da/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäːu̯d̪ä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cauda"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "cauda illa"
    },
    {
      "english": "having a tail; caudal",
      "word": "caudālis"
    },
    {
      "word": "caudam trahere"
    },
    {
      "english": "tailed, caudate; lengthened, extended, elongated",
      "tags": [
        "Medieval-Latin"
      ],
      "word": "caudātus"
    },
    {
      "word": "caudiformis"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "VL.",
            "2": "cōda"
          },
          "expansion": "Vulgar Latin: cōda",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Vulgar Latin: cōda (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "cauda",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Dalmatian: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda"
          },
          "expansion": "(note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Dalmatian: cauda (note: by regular sound changes, maybe also from Vulgar Latin cōda)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "cauda",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old Galician-Portuguese: cauda"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "cauda"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: cauda"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "cauda",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: cauda",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: cauda"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*kaudā",
        "4": "",
        "5": "tail"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*keh₂u-d-eh₂",
        "t": "cleaved, separate"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "kuodas",
        "3": "",
        "4": "tuft"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂ (“cleaved, separate”), from *keh₂w-. Compare cūdō (“to beat, hammer”), caudex (“tree trunk, stump”), Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cauda",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cauda",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caudae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cauda<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cauda<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "caput"
        }
      ],
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        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin feminine nouns",
        "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
        "Latin first declension nouns",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with variable monophthongization",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Alternative form: cōda"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tail (animal appendage)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tail",
          "tail"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pēnis"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkau̯.da/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäu̯d̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkau̯.da/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkäːu̯d̪ä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cauda"
}

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