cauda

From Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda.

cauda f

1. tail

• cōda

From Proto-Italic *kaudā (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u-d-eh₂, from *keh₂w-. Compare Lithuanian kuodas (“tuft”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.da/

cauda f (genitive caudae); first declension

1. A tail (of an animal)

First declension.

• caput

All except modern borrowings are from the Late Latin form cōda

• cōda
• picta

• 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
• cauda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cauda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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

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

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

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

• caudal
• coda
• cola

cauda f (plural caudas)

1. tail (of a garment)